Romney Favors Three-Tier Marriage System

by Stephan Tawney on December 15, 2011

Tell me again how this guy is going to appeal to moderates.

Expressed support for a constitutional amendment that could create a complex three-tier system of marriage — maintaining marriage rights for straight couples, allowing gays who have already married to remain married, but barring future same-sex marriages.

Which has absolutely no chance of being enacted. Instead of alienating just the pro-gay marriage or anti-gay marriage side, you end up alienating both.

The only people appeased are squishes who aren’t quite comfortable with gay marriage but don’t want to seem mean and socially irresponsible by completely ending the practice.



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