Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Where Cheney Is to Obama's Left:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_31-2009_06_06.shtml#1243946246
[1]From today's Washington Post:
Cheney, whose youngest daughter has a longtime lesbian partner,
said at the National Press Club that "people ought to be free to
enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement
they wish."
He added, however, that he does not support a federal role in the
matter. "Historically, the way marriage has been regulated is at
the state level," Cheney said. "It has always been a state issue,
and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a
state-by-state basis."
Cheney has long departed from conservative orthodoxy on the issue
of same-sex marriage. He said during the 2000 presidential campaign
that the matter should be left to the states, and he caused a small
uproar during the 2004 race by appearing to distance himself from a
proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, a measure
that was strongly supported by his boss, President George W. Bush.
Cheney's position appears also to put him to the left of the
current president on the issue. President Obama has said he
supports civil unions, rather than marriage, for gay men and
lesbians.
References
1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/01/AR2009060103266.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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