{"id":27920,"date":"2010-08-13T08:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-sensible-mainstream-libertarian-stance-on-gay-marriage\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T08:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:08:29","slug":"a-sensible-mainstream-libertarian-stance-on-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/a-sensible-mainstream-libertarian-stance-on-gay-marriage.php","title":{"rendered":"A sensible, mainstream Libertarian stance on Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TGAzmEAqObI\/AAAAAAAAMn8\/KwaY4FMv4xA\/s1600\/MarkHinkle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a70ca_MarkHinkle.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Just Get Government the Hell out of it!<\/strong><\/p><p>Mark Hinkle is the newly-elected National Chairman of the Libertarian Party.  He's also a candidate in a special election for a California State Senate seat.  <\/p><p>During a recent debate the hot topic of Gay Marriage came up.  The conservative Republican predictably took the stance of supporting Yes on Prop. 8 opposing Gay Marriage.  The liberal Democrat supported the recent court ruling overturning the voter-backed initiative.  Then came the Libertarian response.  <\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_15697535?nclick_check=1\">San Jose Mercury-News<\/a>, \"Laird, Blakeslee disagree over Prop. 23 in debate in Arroyo Grande\" Aug. 6:<\/p><blockquote><p>Hinkle said the government should get out of marriage altogether, adding that when George and Martha Washington got married they didn't get a license; they simply found a preacher.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/markhinkle.defendsliberty.com\/\">markhinkle.defendsliberty.com<\/a><\/p><p><em>Prior photo of Hinkle not from the recent debate.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a70ca_7828681836623105417-709324204027656305?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Get Government the Hell out of it!Mark Hinkle is the newly-elected National Chairman of the Libertarian Party. He's also a candidate in a special election for a California State Senate seat. During a recent debate the hot topic of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/a-sensible-mainstream-libertarian-stance-on-gay-marriage.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}