[Vision2020] Palin Differs With McCain on Federal Marriage Amendment

[No Weatherman]

If Sarah Palin is a theocrat, or even if she leans in that direction,
then I am a Weatherman.

This may surprise you, Ms. Lund, but 1 + 1 does not equal 57.

You need to learn to think in straight lines.



On 10/20/08, Saundra Lund <sslund_2007 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I see:  reproductive rights and family planning are best decided by each
>  state, but we should amend the US Constitution to define and limit
>  marriages.  Of course, none of us who have been learning about Palin are
>  surprised given her theocratic leaning and her earlier-in-the-campaign
>  attempt to spin it otherwise.
>
>  Inconsistent?  You betcha!
>
>
>  Palin Differs With McCain on Federal Marriage Amendment
>  October 20, 2008 9:14 AM
>
>  ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Republican vice presidential nominee
>  Gov. Sarah Palin has signaled support for a federal marriage amendment
>  defining marriage as between a man and woman - a position inconsistent with
>  Sen. John McCain, who has opposed such a measure, as well as with her own
>  previously stated position of letting states decide on such issues.
>
>  In an interview to air tomorrow on The 700 Club, Christian Broadcasting News
>  senior correspondent David Brody asked Palin, "On constitutional marriage
>  amendment, are, are you for something like that?"
>
>  "I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of
>  Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining
>  marriage as between one man and one woman," Palin said, citing the 1998
>  initiative that banned gay marriage in her home state.
>
>  "I wish on a federal level that that's where we would go because I don't
>  support gay marriage," Palin added, taking a position at odds with McCain,
>  who opposed efforts for a proposed Federal Marriage Amendment in 2004.
>  McCain opposes same-sex marriage, but says he believes the decision should
>  be left to individual states.
>
>  Palin's position is also at odds with statements she has made calling
>  herself a "federalist" who supports letting individual states decide on such
>  matters.
>
>  When asked last month by CBS' Katie Couric why she considered Roe v. Wade a
>  bad decision, Palin said she believed states and not the federal government
>  should decide the legality of the issue.
>
>  "I think it should be a states' issue not a federal government-mandated,
>  mandating yes or no on such an important issue. I'm, in that sense, a
>  federalist, where I believe that states should have more say in the laws of
>  their lands and individual areas," Palin said. "And I believe that
>  individual states can best handle what the people within the different
>  constituencies in the 50 states would like to see their will ushered in an
>  issue like that."
>
>  McCain, who often calls himself a "federalist," has tied together his
>  opposition to Roe v. Wade as well as a Federal Marriage Amendment as
>  consistent with the position of letting states make such decisions.
>
>  "I'm a federalist. Just as I believe that the issue of gay marriage should
>  be decided by the states, so do I believe that we would be better off by
>  having Roe v. Wade return to the states," McCain said in an interview on
>  This Week with George Stephanopoulos in November 2006. "And I don't believe
>  the Supreme Court should be legislating in the way that they did on Roe v.
>  Wade."
>
>  As she has said in previous interviews, Palin told CBN's Brody that she
>  would not "judge" gay individuals, but said that she will continue "casting
>  my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage."
>
>  "I'm not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of
>  judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do,"
>  Palin told Brody. "But I certainly can express my own opinion here and take
>  actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage, and that's
>  casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that
>  instrument that it's the foundation of our society is that strong family and
>  that's based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support
>  that."
>
>  http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-differs-w.html
>
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