Ron Paul on Gay Marriage

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ABC's John Stossel interviewed GOP presidential hopeful Representative Ron Paul on 20/20 about personal freedoms, drug legalization, gay marriage, and prostitution. Here's what Paul had to say about gay marriage (it begins at 2:01 in the clip above).

STOSSEL: Homosexuality. Should gays be allowed to marry?

PAUL: Sure.

STOSSEL: The State says, we will believe in this?

PAUL: Sure they can do whatever they want and they can call it whatever they want , just so they don't expect to impose their relationship on somebody else. They can't make me, personally, accept what they do, but they gay couples can do whatever they want. In fact, I'd like to see all governments out of the marriage question. I don't think it's a state function. I think it's a religious function. There was a time when only churches dealt with marriage, and they determined what it was. But 100 years or so ago for health reasons they claim that the state would protect us if we knew more about our spouses and we did health testing and you had to get a license to get married and I don't agree with that.
 
Yikes....!

RP has totally lost it...and he is a OB MD...Testing for disease before one gets a marriage license is a bad thing??????????? This guy is way outta left field and he should turn in his license to practice medicine...imho
 
He's not right. Testing for diseases before granting a "marriage license" would clearly be fascist, and anybody who'd want to force that on people or even agree with it in passing is scum and should be kicked like the dog they are. But that's not the reason. It was done so that the state could get more control over marriage, more like about 400 years ago.
 
Watermark said:
He's not right. Testing for diseases before granting a "marriage license" would clearly be fascist, and anybody who'd want to force that on people or even agree with it in passing is scum and should be kicked like the dog they are. But that's not the reason. It was done so that the state could get more control over marriage, more like about 400 years ago.
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Uhhh, no...

In the 1877 US Supreme Court case of Meister vs. Moore the court held that state laws in Michigan and Massachusetts that invalidated unlicensed marriages were unenforceable. They stated…
"As before remarked, the statutes are held merely directory; because marriage is a thing of common right..."
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Now that this has officially turned into a Hugo Chavez thread and we now know that he's free to run in the 2008 elections, I believe somewhere on a poll in cyberspace, he's gone up a point.
 
The first marriage licenses were required primarily for intermarrying. But states extended on the flimsy basis of medical reasons to hide the racist ones.
 
Battleborne said:
RP has totally lost it...and he is a OB MD...Testing for disease before one gets a marriage license is a bad thing??????????? This guy is way outta left field and he should turn in his license to practice medicine...imho
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Are there ANY states that still require blood tests? I have been married in South Carolina and New Mexico and Neither of them tested me. Just looked 4 states and the District of Columbia are all that require blood tests now. So not so out in left field huh there old man.

http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/Obj...E-20FF-467A-9E9395985EE7E825/118/304/192/ART/
 
Socrtease said:
Are there ANY states that still require blood tests? I have been married in South Carolina and New Mexico and Neither of them tested me. Just looked 4 states and the District of Columbia are all that require blood tests now. So not so out in left field huh there old man.

http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/Obj...E-20FF-467A-9E9395985EE7E825/118/304/192/ART/
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Nevada does not either...But for the record I think testing is a very good idea...especially when the world of today is full of self serving liars...I would like to know if a positive for some venereal disease or HIV was present before I decided to committ to a death sentence...:rolleyes:
Carry on counselor...sleep with whomever ya want disease free or not!
 
Battleborne said:
Nevada does not either...But for the record I think testing is a very good idea...especially when the world of today is full of self serving liars...I would like to know if a positive for some venereal disease or HIV was present before I decided to committ to a death sentence...:rolleyes:
Carry on counselor...sleep with whomever ya want disease free or not!
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Then ask her to take the test.
 
Battleborne said:
'New Life Church' ho! ever hear about condums? Never mind ya like the backroad...!
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C'mon back little beefy buddy..that all ya got?
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I hope you don't think I'm "Ted Haggard", I troll better than that.

How does a 60 something dude pick up dames anyhow? Do you discuss incontinence and heart medication until you feel a spark? :cof1:
 
Battleborne said:
Nevada does not either...But for the record I think testing is a very good idea...especially when the world of today is full of self serving liars...I would like to know if a positive for some venereal disease or HIV was present before I decided to committ to a death sentence...:rolleyes:
Carry on counselor...sleep with whomever ya want disease free or not!
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Great, then tell her to get tested. Why does ot need to be required by the state.
 
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