[HumanaeVitae]

Actually, I'm the latter: a conservative, although not a socialist. I believe the government has the right to regulate all kinds of behaviors.

[WyldKard]

Actually, I'm the latter: a conservative, although not a socialist. I believe the government has the right to regulate all kinds of behaviors.

Then please point out the section of the Constitution to me that grants the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT the power to conduct a "War on Drugs". Or a "War on Poverty". or a "War on Guns". Please point out the section to me that usurps the 10th Amendment, and the States rights to decide these issues for their individual selves?

Once again, it is my belief that only Socialist Governments see themselves as the chief source of morality. Government is Mother, Government is Father. This is already happening (has happened) in our own country.

[WyldKard]

Some more wisdom from our Founding Fathers:

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln.

[rb22982]

I believe the government has the right to regulate all kinds of behaviors.

Fine, when they come for you Bible and your church, don't expect me to stop you, I'll just smile and say, "I told you so." As soon as you open up that can of worms to enforce your morals on other people, you better be ok with things you do not being allowed.

[rightofrush]

Actually, I'm the latter: a conservative, although not a socialist. I believe the government has the right to regulate all kinds of behaviors.

As has every moralist dictator from Hitler to Pol Pot to...