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>>>>Most other true Libertarians would find it hard to argue the state has a right to deny a marriage to any two consenting adults. We are absolutely on the same page on
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>>>I wonder how many 'true' Libertarians there really are out there. Mostly it seems to me that they want government to butt out of their lives, but not everybody else's. I think you may be hard pressed to find Libertarians who believe that gay marriage should not be denied.
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>>Actually Gary Johnson - the Libertarian candidate who should have been the GOP candidate except he refused to pander to the Leviticans - has been ahead of the *Progressive* President on this ( as he is on much else )
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http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/10/gary-johnson-on-obamas-gay-marriage-rema>
>That's good to see. I wonder how pervasive his outlook is among Libertarians.
This article was in the most recent Weekly Standard and is a real hoot. Gives a lot of perspective on the Libertarians and on Gary Johnson - and why those things are not synonymous <s>
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2012/06/the-weekly-standard-unconventional-the-libertarian-party-does-las-vegas/
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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- Ben Franklin
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