Neil misses how social conservatism ties the whole Conservative / Libertarian package together.
Abortion? We’ve slaughtered 30 million plus potential taxpayers. The elderly have no children or grandchildren to take care of them (and pay Social Security for them). Less moral businesses are trying to import cheap labor in the form of illegal aliens. Tax revenues are impacted because there are fewer taxpayers. The military is impacted by fewer bodies from which to recruit.
Marriage? The biggest indicator of future poverty, crime, etc. is the marital status of the parents. Children with a married father and mother do better than children in single parent households. Children with married, heterosexual parents, that is.
The Constitution was written for a “moral people.” If the people are not moral, they cannot be governed by it. I don’t want to live under what is replacing it...
—John Adams