Horning Corrects Senator Braun

Horning Corrects Senator Braun

by Andrew Horning

Libertarian Candidate for Indiana’s 8^th US House of Representatives

Freedom, IN – Andrew Horning, the Libertarian candidate for Indiana’s 8^th US House of Representatives, wrote the following regarding Mike Braun’s controversial remarks about interracial marriage:

Indiana has had worse US Senators than Mike Braun.  He’s no constitutionalist, but he has clearly tried to be principled.  So I do understand why the Senator said what he said about interracial marriage in the context of a Supreme Court nominee.  I even agree with his core premise about judicial activism and federalism.  Braun was right about Roe v Wade overstepping federal authority.  I’ll go further and say that the criticisms I’ve heard about his remarks, so far, are themselves not based on either constitutional law or commonly-understood principles of morality.

So I’d like to offer a friendly correction to Senator Braun’s remarks.

He should’ve pointed out that Loving v. Virginia was a correction to political overreach.  He could have cited the federal constitution’s Article I Section I, as well as the 9^th, 10^th and 14^th Amendments; as well as the Indiana Constitution’s Article I, Sections 23 and 25.  This would have been consistent with his answer on Roe v Wade

Neither Indiana nor federal constitutions grant any authority at all over marriage.  Full stop.

I wrote this ten years ago about “gay marriage,” but it’s absolutely relevant here:
https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/gay-marriage-is-that-what-we-think-this-is-about/

Liberty or Bust!

Andy Horning

Freedom, Indiana

For more about Andy’s proposals to clean up the mess the Two Party System has created, wee “Eight Steps to Success” at https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/eight-steps-to-success/