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To: old3030

“Christian” libertarian is impossible, libertarianism is about being a part of a movement at war against social conservatism.


75 posted on 08/18/2014 7:37:19 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12
“Christian” libertarian is impossible, libertarianism is about being a part of a movement at war against social conservatism.

That's true, but only to a point. That is one flavor of libertarianism, and one that is on the rise now. But that is not true libertarianism. And libertarians come in many flavors. You identified but one…….and it is the most dangerous flavor.

77 posted on 08/18/2014 7:40:28 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: ansel12

So you say. I am against government intrusion in the free market and in individual liberties as much as it possible. That’s why the Constitution is all about telling the government what it cannot do. In that sense, the Founders were libertarians and many of them were devout Christians.

If you embrace a big government, big brother kind of imposed adherence to biblical standards as a social conservative then, yes, you and I will have to disagree and even be at odds.

However, if you are willing to reduce the role of the FEDERAL government to Constitutional boundaries, and you want to make laws at the local level to restrict vice and encourage virtue in a given community, I have no problem with that. And it is none of the federal government’s business.

I am a Christian libertarian. I am not unicorn.


82 posted on 08/18/2014 8:01:33 AM PDT by old3030 (I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look.)
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