Posted by
Roxanna M. on Monday, April 20, 2009 3:04:18 PM
Speaking before the Log Cabin Republicans' 2009 convention last Friday, former New Jersey Republican Governor Christine Todd Whitman said the following:
"Well, I am somebody who believes in the separation of church and state and that the government, frankly, ought to be out of the business of marriage entirely. It ought to be everybody - heterosexual, homosexual. When you go down and register to get married, that's when the legal transfer of everything occurs and that's a legal recognition of a relationship - and if you want to get married in a church, a temple, whatever, and you find one, great! Civil marriage, everybody".
She went on to say that that part of the Republican Party platform entitled "Preserving Traditional Marriage" should be removed.
How could a former governor be so incredibly ignorant. If the government were "out of the business of marriage entirely", then there would be no laws of any kind governing marriage. Gay marriage? Okay. Incestuous marriage? Fine and dandy. Polygamy? The more the merrier. By definition, "Civil marriage, everybody" would include all of these.
I realize she was playing to the crowd (Log Cabin Republicans are the gay segment of the party), but to say something so patently absurd is more appropriate to a neophyte candidate and not a seasoned pol. Obviously, Ms. Whitman is on the 2010 campaign trail. Not an auspicious start.