"Health care is different. Insurance companies support us."

     John Russell in The Raleigh News & Observer:

          Putting Amendment One before the voters was a high priority for Republican legislative leaders (House Speaker Thom Tillis, who organized passage of the amendment in the General Assembly, says he will vote for it but predicted that if it’s enacted, repeal would come in 20 years.) Now that the vote nears, why are so many conservatives opposed?

          Conservatives are troubled by the big government aspect of Amendment One. John Hood wrote: “The real threat to marriage is not the prospect of gay people getting hitched. It is the reality of straight people too quickly resorting to divorce or never getting hitched in the first place.” Hood points to a spiritual problem, not one that regulation can solve.

          Then there’s the outright restriction of individual rights. Only a month after the U.S. Supreme Court heard powerful arguments against the health insurance mandate as unconstitutional, it rings hollow to many conservatives to insist that the heavy hand of the state come down against people who want to commit themselves to sharing a life. Put simply, if there is a liberty interest in choosing to buy health insurance, isn’t there a liberty interest in choosing to marry?

     I really would love to read some explanations of this from SC's otherwise ever-so-vocal right.