DOMA and Religious Right Hypocrisy on “Big Government”

Candace Chellew-Hodge at Religion Dispatches: Those hardships were brushed aside by religious right speakers, including Austin [Nimocks] from the Alliance Defense Fund who made the big government argument, discounting “private” concerns of marriage like happiness, and financial security should one partner die. Instead, Ni[m]ocks trotted out the old “fact that children are the product of the sexual relationships between men and women,” thus big government is needed to regulate this institution as closely as possible. | Contrast – Gary Bauer at Human Events, “Libertarians and Gay Marriage;” George Weigel at EPPC, ‘Gay Marriage,’ Libertarians, and Civil Rights; ADF Alliance Alert: Message to Rush Limbaugh: Civil unions are not compatible with conservatism or a free society; Jennifer Roback Morse at Acton Institute, The Family is a Fiscal Issue