Rand Paul: Government Should Get Out of the Marriage Business Altogether

[Torie]

Very, very stupid. You see, with marriage, comes certain governmental benefits and duties, and burdens, tax wise, social security wise and otherwise. So unless Rand wants to dump all of that, what he is left with is just a name change from "marriage" to "civil unions" or something. Yes, there is a lot of emotion in the terminology, but legally and policy wise, it's pretty meaningless. Libertarians on some matters can be just so obtuse sometimes. They think there are magic wands out there, that make difficult issues go away.