Reply #3: Went back to 1998 and found this odd article. [View All]

This election has us witnessing a strange marriage between those who hold up individual rights as supreme and those who would amend the constitution to set limits on one of lifes most personal decisions.

No matter how you feel about human sexuality or family values, we have trouble understanding why the many candidates in this election trumpeting themselves as bedrock, dyed-in-the-wool Alaskan conservatives, who want to shrink government and reduce its influence in business and personal lives, are at the same time so vehemently supporting Ballot Measure No. 2.

The conservative candidates who embrace the passage of the one man, one woman marriage ballot measure are taking a position that seems profoundly incompatible with the political stance they simultaneously claim to embody.

True conservatives might better fight against any government measures that stray outside stewardship of the states finances and resources rather than wandering off instead to regulate morality, religious beliefs and, especially, marriage the most private of all human activities.