Inspired by one of our posters who supports marriage equality, and is also a member of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, I did a perusal of the roll call votes on CACR 28, and HB1590, and found many of the candidates the NHLA endorsed for State House voted to deny individuals the fundamental right to legal marriage.
NHLA endorsed candidates include: Nancy Elliot(R-Merrimack), Al Baldasaro(R-Londonderry), William O'Brien (R-Mont Vernon), Daniel Itse(R-Fremont), and Jordan Ulery(R-Hudson)
These people, interestingly enough are also very much against a woman's right to choose.
How does this square with the NHLA's stated purpose (from their website)?
The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance is a non-partisan coalition working to increase individual freedom in New Hampshire.
It seems to me that individual choice with respect to intimate decisions should be paramount. But it isn't if one looks at the records of these and other individuals endorsed by this group.
Is it really individual liberty they are promoting? Or the liberty of monied interests of all stripes to do what they please in this state?
Then we'll be left with a government that will not help you if you're poor, sick, disabled, or elderly, nor educate children, but will sniff around your bedroom, dictate your intimate relationships and, if you're a woman, control your bodily integrity. That's liberty? Strange.
Adding (Dean): More fauxbertarianism? My own rep from Andover, Jennifer Coffey, who is a Free Stater but who runs as a Republican, voted for the repeal of marriage equality. How's that for Liberty?
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