[mnehring]

I've started calling them the Churchstitution Party, they are nothing but theocrats who twist the Constitution more than most I've seen. I've been reading a lot of them lately and they are insane. On a thread, one of their former candidates was praising UAE’s laws against premarital sex, adultery, and homosexual behavior. They actually want US laws to cover those things as crimes. It is really strange how many so called ‘Libertarians’ (at that Conservatives) bounce over to that party so easily. Just goes to show they are driven by one or two small issues, not actual principle.

[wideawake]

Well the UAE's laws are obviously not what we want. But historically, sodomy has been considered a crime in the US.

And fornication and adultery have rightly carried civil penalties.

The reasoning behind these legal aspects of the US system varies greatly from the UAE's, however.

But you bring up an important point: a lot of the Constitution Party people seem to operate on the assumption that once they succeed in robbing the federal government of all or most of its Constitutional powers, they will be able to create all-powerful state governments that will enact their every whim as an iron law without the nuisance of federal review.