Horning Corrects Senator Braun
by Andrew Horning
Libertarian Candidate for Indiana’s 8th US House of Representatives
Freedom, IN – Andrew Horning, the Libertarian candidate for Indiana’s 8th 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 9th, 10th and 14th 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/
Correction: It’s “the federal constitution’s Article 4 Section 1,” not Article I Section I.
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