badgenome said:
He voted against the attempt to amend the constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman, but he has spoken out in support of DOMA as recently as last year and has co-sponsored a bill that would prevent federal courts from even ruling on DOMA. DOMA was passed the year before Paul took office, so he didn't actually vote for it, though. |
The thing about DOMA though is that it basically says one state isn't forced to respect another state's gay marriage liscenses.
I'm sure Ron Paul would like to extend that to all marriages and remove the gay part in an "ideal" ron paul world.
Really, it seems like Ron Paul could be a homophobe, could be racist, be any number of things... yet it wouldn't really matter, because as president he wouldn't pass any laws about it becuse he doesn't believe that it's government's place to do such things... and he actually believes it.
Kinda like Dennis Kusinich who was pretty much the only person in the "Impeach Bush" camp that was also saying "Impeach Obama" after he did essentially the same thing as bush but WORSE.
Oddly enough, you could probably say Ron Paul would be someone you could vote for as President, but not as Govonor.
Of course, Ron Paul may feel this way only because he's never been close to be president.
