Jon Huntsman: States Should Have The Right To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 4th, 2011 4:36 am by HL
Jon Huntsman: States Should Have The Right To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (R) — who is seeking the GOP’s presidential nomination — reiterated his opposition to same-sex marriage during an appearance on CNN this afternoon, but said states should be allowed to pass marriage equality laws. Huntsman’s remarks are likely to ruffle the fathers of fellow 2012 candidate Rick Santorum, who recently […]
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (R) — who is seeking the GOP’s presidential nomination — reiterated his opposition to same-sex marriage during an appearance on CNN this afternoon, but said states should be allowed to pass marriage equality laws. Huntsman’s remarks are likely to ruffle the fathers of fellow 2012 candidate Rick Santorum, who recently lashed out at Texas Governor Rick Perry for also suggesting that he was “fine” with New York’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage.
BLITZER: Would you agree that states like New York or Iowa should have the right — if they want to have gay marriage, they should have that right?
HUNTSMAN: Of course, that’s absolutely their right. This is an issue that’s more and more should be driven at the state level.
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Huntsman is one of the few Republican presidential hopefuls to support civil unions and reciprocal beneficiary rights for same-sex couples, and has even reached out to LGBT groups in Utah. Huntsman first embraced civil unions in February 2009, despite supporting a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage in 2004.
Private Real Estate Ownership Coming To Cuba
When I went to China last year, it made me very optimistic about the future for Cuba suddenly. The basic story of China, after all, is that reform works. It works for Chinese people, and it works for the Chinese government too. There’s no reason any government anywhere, authoritarian or otherwise, should feel compelled to […]
When I went to China last year, it made me very optimistic about the future for Cuba suddenly. The basic story of China, after all, is that reform works. It works for Chinese people, and it works for the Chinese government too. There’s no reason any government anywhere, authoritarian or otherwise, should feel compelled to stick with total elimination of private property rights. And, indeed, today I read that economic reform in Cuba continues to trundle forward, this time with a government plan to allow for private ownership of real estate.
Keeping all the property government-owned hasn’t changed the fact that desirable dwellings are still in limited supply. It’s merely led to a lot of non-market allocative mechanisms that you can read about along with destroying incentives to maintain property correctly. If the U.S. keeps moving to relax our pointless and counterproductive embargo and the Cuban government keeps moving to relax its pointless and counterproductive curbs on exchange, then the country should have a bright future.
Meanwhile, Daniel Davies argues that Barack Obama is the new Fidel Castro (in a good way).
