Gay Marriage

I came across an editorial in The Washington Post called "Mike Huckabee, gay marriage defender" written by Ruth Marcus. Marcus is an editorial writer for The Post, specializing in American politics, campaign finance, the federal budget and taxes, and other domestic issues. In this recent editorial Marcus took something that the governor said, even though he didn't mean it that way, and found it to be in support of gay marriages. Huckabee was quoted, referring to, "$300 billion dad deficit in America every year. That's the amount of money that we spend as taxpayers to pick up the pieces because dads are derelict in their duties and they're not raising their kids and supporting them. . . . One of the reasons I came to the conclusion was not for an evangelical reason. It was seeing a lot of money that we spend as a state was spent in picking up the pieces of people whose lives were broken because their families were dysfunctional or shattered."And speaking on Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "He understood the economic reality of out-of-wedlock children," Huckabee said. Marcus took this quote as an argument for same-sex marriage and not against it because unless you believe the absence of the right to get married will prevent gays and lesbians from having children, which it doesn't seem like, Marcus believes that we should be celebrating their desire to form stable unions and subject themselves to clear legal responsibilities. Marcus interprets Obama's decision as simply saying that the federal government will from now on respect a state's definition of marriage-even if it encompasses same-sex marriage.

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