Same Sex Marriage

I can't stand it when people oppose same sex marriage. It infuriates me to no end. But that is another post for another time. For now, the Kansas State Legislature is considering a bill that would prevent local municipalities from passing their own legislation that would permit domestic partner benefits and potentially even civil unions, despite the 2005 Kansas Constitutional amendment banning same sex marrige.

State Rep. Lance Kinzer, R-Olathe, said his proposed ban would keep state law on domestic relationships uniform and protect the state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

What I do love is when purported "conservatives" rant and rave about small government and no interference in the marketplace and on and on about how no one should be able to tell others how to live or spend their money and then use the most personal of issues - religion, sexuality, marriage, medical decisions, and make them the benchmark of their campaigns. I don't know how what "Republican" Representative Kinzer believes in Olathe should have any affect on what I believe in Lawrence or what my friends in Horton believe or what George Tiller believes in Wichita about the role of their local government. If Rep. Kinzer wants to come out in favor of big government, fine. But I think that he, like most other "social conservative" politicians, have simply run out of ideas about how to make Kansas, or the United States, or the world, a better place to live. Scare tactics work for bullies, but true statesmen, true leaders have a vision for everyone.