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He doesn't seem to be hardcore anti-gay. I haven't found much but did find this in an article:
Said Morris:
"My view on gay marriage is that if a state decides to go for gay marriage, the legislature or the voters, that's great. That's up to them. I've got no problem with it. I don't believe that the courts should jam it down anybody's throat.
As for his personal view? "If people want it they should be able to do it but it's got to be a decision of the community."
https://www.towleroad.com/2013/02/dickmorris/
So close to being great, but that "decision of the community" threw it all off. Why is it up to the community to restrict individual liberty?
Seems in line with some of the more "grounded" conservative opinions on how the Federal government and the states should run things tbh. We may disagree with them but it's not downright stupid or anti democratic at least...
It is, but not on its own. Only when compared to the larger canon of conservative thought in which these principles are only applied to things they have preference against.
If a conservative doesn't like it and the federal government is protecting it it's a states rights issue. If a conservative does like it and the federal government isn't protecting it it's a constitutional issue.
There is no well reasoned principal backing these beliefs. It's merely a facade of justification put on top of preferences.
Agreed. But hey at least it's not a completely batshit insane opinion I guess! This is how low the bar is currently
For someone who ostensibly believes in small government, a marriage should be seen as a contract between consenting adults. There is absolutely no reason ANY greater organization, whether the government, the community, the church, or whatever it is, should be making decisions about who can and cannot qualify for engaging in that contract.
This guy's entire comment is a smokescreen hiding his actual opinion. He invokes the courts jamming it down our throats... that is their job: to limit the activities of government when government overreaches. Bans or restrictions on gay marriage ARE an overreach. A "true" advocate for small government should be happy the courts are telling the government no when it overreaches -- but he isn't happy about it. Because he's, like most conservatives, full of shit.
The entire thing betrays that he doesn't actually give a shit about small government. He wants government right up in peoples' business. He wants you to share your bedsheets with government. He's an insane, evil fuck because anyone who thinks the government should be involved in restricting marriage at ANY level is an insane, evil fuck.
Well that’s the best you can hope for from a right winger.
Sounds like what a gay Republican would say to me
That last bit shows he's a homophobe. He thinks it's a privilege instead of a human right and is fine with states persecuting people.
It does, but he's a fucking Newsmax presenter so we're operating with a bar so low it's somewhere in the Earth's mantle