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Thompson: No Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage
August 17th 2007 Politics, MultiCulti

The Corner on National Review Online

In an interview with CNN today, former Senator Fred Thompson’s position on constitutional amendments concerning gay marriage was unclear.

Thompson believes that states should be able to adopt their own laws on marriage consistent with the views of their citizens.

He does not believe that one state should be able to impose its marriage laws on other states, or that activist judges should construe the constitution to require that.

If necessary, he would support a constitutional amendment prohibiting states from imposing their laws on marriage on other states.

Fred Thompson does not support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

Seems fair enough to me.

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  • Mike Hendrix
    August 18th, 2007 | #1

    In an interview with CNN today, former Senator Fred Thompson’s position on constitutional amendments concerning gay marriage was unclear perfectly clear, straightforward, and in concordance with the federalist principles espoused by the Founders –and therefore neither acceptable to nor comprehensible by MSM drones hard-wired to a politically-correct opinion we wish to see enforced by Big Nanny, thus requiring our usual dose of weasel-word obfuscation.

    There, fixed it for ‘em.

  • Bill Arnold
    August 18th, 2007 | #2

    I wonder how Thompson feels about Loving vs Virginia:
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html or a host of other sources. (There were (flimsy) bibilical arguments for anti-miscegenation laws.)

  • JackWayne
    August 18th, 2007 | #3

    Let’s see Bill. Loving was decided on an EXISTING amendment to the Constitution. So I’m missing whatever you think the point of your question is.

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