Ron Paul on Gay Marriage

I very much understand where Ron Paul is coming from in his belief on the issue of gay marriage, and I actually do think sometimes that it would be better to leave it up to the states. I agree with him that it would be unnecessary to make an amendment to the constitution, and I actually think it would be completely hypocritical to what the United States stands for- freedom and equality for all does not exactly go with an amendment to the constitution that would ban equality for certain people but not for others. Ron Paul is more a libertarian, so of course he would be more for state rights than federal and not want to issue an amendment unless it were for economic purposes, as he says- and I think he would run wanting even less government influencing everything if it were not for the fact that a libertarian would not win. I do like his response here, and he brings up a good point about marriage; everyone already knows what it is and it does not need to be redefined; we do not need to create an amendment banning same sex marriage. As for leaving it up to the states, I'm not sure what I think- I'm usually all for state rights, but by allowing them this freedom it's taking away freedom from people in some states... I'm not sure what I think about that.