re: #134 Simply Me

The Curmudgeon wrote:

This seems like an exageration. Have pe-marital relations, contraception and masturbation been mentioned in the party platform?

I think supporting traditional marriage and opposition to abortion are substantive issues. Lumping them in with masturbation seems like a rhetorical trick to trivialize them.

And now for my position on gay marriage:

Permit gay civil unions, with all of the same legal rights and privileges that heterosexual marriage grants (tax status, mutual inheritance rights, spousal medical decisionmaking authority, spousal employment benefits, spousal insurance benefits) while reserving the traditional term of marriage for heterosexual unions.