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I’m a Liberal and Secretary Clinton is to my right. Senator Sanders is to my left. Without a Liberal Party and card carrying members adhering to a party platform, the word liberal means different things to different people.
I resent you calling me a liar. I gave opinions. You state “she wants Gay marriage.” I don’t want any part of a gay marriage for myself, BUT I support extending civil rights and opportunities to all US citizens without discriminating on the basis of sexual preferences. Civil marriage is a contract between 2 adults and it gives certain tax and other benefits. It has nothing to do with religious marriage and the accompanying rules.
I practice family law. Before CT made same sex marriage legal, I had to arrange for a same sex couple who had been together 40 years to become an adopted parent and an adopted adult so that the partner could be involved in the partner’s medical decisions. The partner was dying of cancer. There were no relatives. The hospital and doctors would not take direction and the couple had a civil union. Luckily adult adoption was legal. The partner with cancer lived long enough for our State Supreme Court to change our law in 2008. They married in the hospital. The cancer victim died 3 months later and the survivor now that the Federal law has changed is getting a spousal Social Security benefit.
Just because a civil right is extended to a group, doesn’t mean you have to make use of it.
In the 1950s, my parents couldn’t buy a house in certain neighborhoods because they were Jewish. My brother was rejected by Princeton in 1962>>>told the Jew Quota was filled. It didn’t matter, he went to Harvard.
In 1961, I attended a public school for 4 months due to a medical problem that required I be 1 block from the hospital for twice daily treatments. I resented the forced recitation of Christian prayer. When the Madeline Murray O’Hare group of Atheists won their battle in the Supreme Court, prayer in public school was made illegal. I’m a Liberal who supports this decision. Most in the Hareidi/Yeshiva community will never deal with this, but the vast majority of American Jews go to public schools and this made life more tenable.