Poll for Libertarians

A GOD fearing libertarian can not support gay marriage.
A GOD fearing anything can not support gay marriage.
or anything else gay for that matter.
IT IS AN ABOMINATION.

It is God that gives people the right to marriage, not governments. The God of the Bible sets forth marriage as one man and one woman becoming one flesh. The same God condemns homosexuality, bestiality, pedophilia, etc. When you argue that you have rights granted from God, that necessitates that you play by God's rules in order to obtain those rights.

A marriage between two men, a man and an animal, an adult and a child, etc., are not marriages at all, they are abomination, and are therefore null and void in God's eyes. Actually anything outside of God's law is abomination, and that includes drunkenness, fornication, lust, feminism, etc., which are all legal in our country.

As a free society however, we are bound by the Constitution to allow all men everywhere the freedom to choose their own lifestyles (render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's). Therefore, as we all must give an account for our lives before God, both in this life and at the judgment, it is not within our authority to limit another persons pursuit of happiness, so long as they do not bring harm to ourselves or our families, or infringe upon others' rights.

In this nation we do not live under the Levitical Law, nor would I want to. I know I would not have lived past age 16. With that being said though, there is a moral absolute and it is Thus Saith the LORD. God condemns homosexuality, as does nature, and therefore I am personally and morally opposed to the practice of homosexuality as a whole, not just the marriage part of it. But, just because I or anyone else disagrees with something, doesn't mean it should be made illegal.

The Constitution, which I have sworn before God to uphold, grants all other American citizen the same rights as I have, and therefore I say leave this issue up to the States. The 10th Amendment makes it clear; the federal government has no place in dictating marriage, drug laws, alcohol laws, etc. Abortion is different, I would say, because the first right we all have is the right to LIFE, but that is a completely different topic.

So to answer your question in a long-winded and rambling sort of way, yes everyone should have the right to marriage in this country, because it is a religious institution, not a governmental one. If marriage has been relegated to a state-issue, then let the States vote and decide for themselves, that way if you disagree with the majority of people in your State, you have the ability to move to where your views are the majority.

If you feel that you have the authority to make judgements of my experience here in this world, then you fundamentally misunderstand the Matrix material. ZAP!

Someone didn't read the thread.

So to answer your question in a long-winded and rambling sort of way, yes everyone should have the right to marriage in this country, because it is a religious institution, not a governmental one. If marriage has been relegated to a state-issue, then let the States vote and decide for themselves, that way if you disagree with the majority of people in your State, you have the ability to move to where your views are the majority.

I agree with this, just leave your god out of the equation, you may believe in it but for some people it's as real as Santa. God only has a place in a theocracy, and that has nothing to do with liberty.

So to answer your question in a long-winded and rambling sort of way, yes everyone should have the right to marriage in this country, because it is a religious institution, not a governmental one. If marriage has been relegated to a state-issue, then let the States vote and decide for themselves, that way if you disagree with the majority of people in your State, you have the ability to move to where your views are the majority.

I agree with this, just leave your god out of the equation, you may believe in it but for some people it's as real as Santa. God only has a place in a theocracy, and that has nothing to do with liberty.

It's worded wrongly. The government should have no say in who may marry and who may not as marriage should not be a governmental institution.

It should be up to each individual religion to decide and atheists may simply throw a party for themselves and say they're married.

It's worded wrongly. The government should have no say in who may marry and who may not as marriage should not be a governmental institution.

It should be up to each individual religion to decide and atheists may simply throw a party for themselves and say they're married.

I have a married gay co worker and he told me that what they want are the same inheritance rights and other legal rights regarding civil marriage than heteros have. It's always about money ,but the issue is that, if atheistic heteros can get it then in a truly free society, gays should get the same rights because there's no logical argument to deny them that.

According to the founders, the only reason you have rights is because God granted them to you and they cannot be taken away by a man-made institution, such as government. The Constitution intrinsically requires a belief in God. God gives us rights, governments try to take them away. The Constitution was instilled to protect the rights that God gave us from the genocidal maniacs at the top of the food chain. You have a right not to believe in God, I will give you that, but then where do your rights originate? From government? Society? You don't have to like it, but it is fact; All men are CREATED equal and endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable rights...

We home school our children, yet I pay taxes directly to the county school board where I live each year. I pay a tax for buses, for school sports programs, teacher's salaries, etc. and don't utilize any of it. We don't get any kind of tax vouchers or breaks for spending the $1,000+ a year on curriculum, museum visits, driving back and forth from Spanish tutors, etc. The system sucks, but instead of trying to get a special tax break, I rally around ending public education, because it is Marxist and unconstitutional. Our government is broken, only reinstating the RULE OF LAW will fix it. That is a very big umbrella, and likely will never happen. Returning to Gold-backed currency, abolishing the FED, abolishing the IRS, ending Obamacare, ending the Drug War, the Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. conflicts, bringing the troops home from foreign lands, leaving the United Nations, etc. are all goals, but the more likely scenario is the US dollar is pulled as the world currency, expanding debt, expanding wars, nullification of more rights, police state, tax increases, etc. We are in real trouble here...

I have a married gay co worker and he told me that what they want are the same inheritance rights and other legal rights regarding civil marriage than heteros have. It's always about money ,but the issue is that, if atheistic heteros can get it then in a truly free society, gays should get the same rights because there's no logical argument to deny them that.

"Creator" CAN imply "god" (of your choice) but does not necessarily imply it. "Creator" can be any number of things from a "mechanism" to a "deity" to one's self at the moment of self-awareness.

We home school our children, yet I pay taxes directly to the county school board where I live each year. I pay a tax for buses, for school sports programs, teacher's salaries, etc. and don't utilize any of it. We don't get any kind of tax vouchers or breaks for spending the $1,000+ a year on curriculum, museum visits, driving back and forth from Spanish tutors, etc. The system sucks, but instead of trying to get a special tax break, I rally around ending public education, because it is Marxist and unconstitutional. Our government is broken, only reinstating the RULE OF LAW will fix it. That is a very big umbrella, and likely will never happen. Returning to Gold-backed currency, abolishing the FED, abolishing the IRS, ending Obamacare, ending the Drug War, the Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. conflicts, bringing the troops home from foreign lands, leaving the United Nations, etc. are all goals, but the more likely scenario is the US dollar is pulled as the world currency, expanding debt, expanding wars, nullification of more rights, police state, tax increases, etc. We are in real trouble here...

"Creator" CAN imply "god" (of your choice) but does not necessarily imply it. "Creator" can be any number of things from a "mechanism" to a "deity" to one's self at the moment of self-awareness.

For the people ASSUMING that I am gay or a polygamist, you're wrong on both counts.

Is it SO HARD TO BELIEVE that a I could support the rights of people who are different than me?!

THAT IS THE FOUNDATION OF LIBERTARIANISM.

Liberty for all. Freedom for all. Personal responsibility for all.

Anything less is ideological BULLSHIT.

How can a mechanism endow men with rights? It just doesn't make any sense. Like I said, you don't have to like it, but the Constitution was CLEARLY written by men who believed God gave us rights that government is not legally able to take away.

It doesn't matter if the men "believed" in god or not, they created the constitution themselves regardless of god, it was a human creation. If god endowed men with rights then everyone would enjoy those rights the same because they would come from an all powerful god, yet we know for a fact that rights as such only exist in societies where PEOPLE agree to upholding such concept, and we know such concept comes from men as we have no evidence god has ever written any book. And by evidence I mean just that,evidence, faith doesn't apply in that regard.,