However, this is one guy that I might want to hang out with! He's the first (and I wonder if any more will join him) GOP candidate to speak out against against this piece of hate speech titled "The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family." His response to it is up on his website, and here's an excerpt of the firm stance he took:
"Government should not be involved in the bedrooms of consenting adults. I have always been a strong advocate of liberty and freedom from unnecessary government intervention into our lives. The freedoms that our forefathers fought for in this country are sacred and must be preserved. The Republican Party cannot be sidetracked into discussing these morally judgmental issues — such a discussion is simply wrongheaded. We need to maintain our position as the party of efficient government management and the watchdogs of the 'public’s pocket book'.
"This ‘pledge’ is nothing short of a promise to discriminate against everyone who makes a personal choice that doesn’t fit into a particular definition of 'virtue'.
"While the Family Leader pledge covers just about every other so-called virtue they can think of, the one that is conspicuously missing is tolerance. In one concise document, they manage to condemn gays, single parents, single individuals, divorcees, Muslims, gays in the military, unmarried couples, women who choose to have abortions, and everyone else who doesn’t fit in a Norman Rockwell painting."
Rock on with your bad self, Gary Johnson! This laissez-faire attitude towards social issues is one far more indicative of a smart conservative, I find, especially after chatting with a really genius (and drunk) bunch of them during a GOProud mixer last month in Minneapolis. The conservative that truly cares about his country is one that wants to create jobs, not keep children from getting adopted by caring gay parents.
He's also the first governor to climb Mt. Everest and to complete a triathlon.
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