Right-wing pundit Dick Morris was speaking from what appeared to be a living room as the man strolled through.
He doesn’t seem to be hardcore anti-gay. I haven’t found much but did find this in an article:
Said Morris:
"My view on gay marriage is that if a state decides to go for gay marriage, the legislature or the voters, that’s great. That’s up to them. I’ve got no problem with it. I don’t believe that the courts should jam it down anybody’s throat.
As for his personal view? “If people want it they should be able to do it but it’s got to be a decision of the community.”
That last bit shows he’s a homophobe. He thinks it’s a privilege instead of a human right and is fine with states persecuting people.
So close to being great, but that “decision of the community” threw it all off. Why is it up to the community to restrict individual liberty?
Seems in line with some of the more “grounded” conservative opinions on how the Federal government and the states should run things tbh. We may disagree with them but it’s not downright stupid or anti democratic at least…
It is, but not on its own. Only when compared to the larger canon of conservative thought in which these principles are only applied to things they have preference against.
If a conservative doesn’t like it and the federal government is protecting it it’s a states rights issue. If a conservative does like it and the federal government isn’t protecting it it’s a constitutional issue.
There is no well reasoned principal backing these beliefs. It’s merely a facade of justification put on top of preferences.
