As I’ve written in the past, single-sex marriage is not my marquee issue, personally.<\/p>\n
Oh, I know what I believe; that marriage is about having kids, and kids grow up best with functional parents of both genders. \u00a0It’s a belief that should <\/em>inform a lot <\/em>of family-law issues (which is why I support gay adoption; two functional same-sex “parents” are not preferable to different-gender parents, but they are much better than a single parent, if that’s the choice.<\/p>\n But I think that as a rule government should <\/em>stay out of most personal choices; that people should be able to sign a civil contract that ties them into a legal construct that gives them all the legal rights that a “Married” couple has – and that people like me should be able to opt out of the government contract and follow the purely religious contract that we believe in. \u00a0And if you belong to a religious demomination that can come up with a theological justification for it, then that’s your first amendment right – just as it’ll be mine to debunk it.<\/p>\n I’m not going to argue about it, either.<\/p>\n But the fact is that while Tom Emmer is not <\/em>focused on gay marriage – this election is, quite rightly, about jobs to him – he also stands in sharp contrast to Dayton and Horner in that he does not <\/em>want the issue decided by a DFL-dominated legislature or an “elite” court that jams the issue down the state’s throat.<\/p>\n Which is the subject of this ad:
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