Ted Cruz: gay marriage issue should be decided at the state level

[pbrower2a]

Strange. Cruz's entire strategy has been not to let any candidate get an inch to the right of him on any possible issue. Now this gives the Santorums and the Ben Carsons of the world an opening against him.

Conservatives can read the writing on the wall. If they can't "save" those 'depraved' states in which people believe in something other than Christian fundamentalism from the alleged ravages of homosexuality, maybe they can 'save' the states in which Republicans can be expected to dominate local politics. There is no way to stop such 'dens of iniquity' as Massachusetts and California from acceptance of same-sex marriage. States like Michigan, Ohio, and even Indiana can be defended until the Democrats win legislative majorities... but maybe they can 'save'  some states before the Dark Forces of Sodomy take over.

[pbrower2a]

He takes a good stance. What's right for Texas may not be right for Rhode Island.

It is right for every state to allow gay marriages, just as it was right for every state to allow inter-racial marriages.

I agree with you but probably not for the same reasons. While I support gay marriage, I also respect and understand people opposing it.

Who opposes in which it is not out of religious beliefs that shouldn't even be part of the government?

What exactly are you asking me? Your question is if anyone who opposes gay marriage does so for non-religious reasons?

The only problem with same-sex marriage to me is that it would make a mess of my genealogical program. 

The trend is clear: it won't be long before conservatives accept it as an economic necessity. 

[pbrower2a]

The trend is clear: it won't be long before conservatives accept it as an economic necessity. 

What do you mean by economic necessity?

If states want the tourist trade or seek to attract businesses of same-sex couples, then those states may legalize SSM for economic reasons even if the partisan makeup of the State legislature is 'wrong'. Thus if Michigan and Ohio legalize SSN. Indiana follows along or pays a price. 

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It would be even more effective to ensure that only Christians could inherit money. That way Jewish families could be fleeced of inheritance taxes, and such would be good for public coffers. It would obviously be objectionable for other reasons.

Discriminatory taxation is of course unacceptable.