[ExTxMarine]

Maybe when you told them that being gay was like robbing banks, they were...insulted?

I am pretty sure that bank robbers were offended too!

I usually don't compare them to bank robbers, I compare them to drug addicts. Both groups decided to engage in an act that is detrimental to their life. I don't agree with either lifestyle, but hey, if that is what you want to do, go for it, but don't expect me to condone or encourage your actions. And, if you ask me my opinion, then expect to hear how I think it is simply WRONG!

Personally, I don't think we should "outlaw" homosexuality or drug use - it is a waste of time, money and resources. The government should not be used to protect us from US. Just like alcohol drinkers, it isn't illegal to drink - it is illegal to expose OTHERS to the dangers of your drinking (i.e., DUI, public drunkness, etc...)

[ExTxMarine]

Personally, I don't think we should "outlaw" homosexuality or drug use - it is a waste of time, money and resources. The government should not be used to protect us from US. Just like alcohol drinkers, it isn't illegal to drink - it is illegal to expose OTHERS to the dangers of your drinking (i.e., DUI, public drunkness, etc...).
I posted this without completing my thought process.

With that being said, I don't think it would be good policy for the United States to base our societal growth and stability on the drug use or the means of sexual gratification of our people. I do not see how drug use or same-sex marriage would help America grow or stabilize the current loss of good parenting, so why should we encourage these actions?

[savagesusie]

Before we eliminate all laws on drugs, etc. we need to get rid of the Welfare system and other unconstitutional aspects, which support and encourage Vice.

Centralized education is unconstitutional and as Mill said in “On Liberty”—all government involvement in education is evil—govt. will only make slaves for the state. They will not “educate”. They destroy knowledge.

...we need to give back local control of most things, like we had before John Dewey and the Progressives took power and destroyed the marriage contract and Just Law which always promotes Virtue——and instituted special rights and privilege for some (evil) and created Crony Capitalism.

[Persevero]

“Personally, I don’t think we should “outlaw” homosexuality or drug use”

If you don’t, you get things like:

- Catholic Charities not allowed to place kids for adoption in certain states, ‘cause they won’t place with homos (if drugs were legal, they’d have to place with drug abusers, too)

- Christian (or other, but it’s usually Christian) businesses forced bake wedding cakes for homos, do photography for homos, let homos in to their leadership (if drugs were legal, you couldn’t discriminate against drug abusers, either, you’d have to enter into business relationships with them etc.)

- Children in public schools, and perhaps elsewhere, being taught and trained to embrace homosexual behavior (and drug use if it gets legalized)

- Children being taken to homo sex acts, homo parades, homo street fairs etc, with all kinds of perversion taking place, getting desensitized, for instance, a child was grand marshall of a homo parade in the midwest last year as I recall, every participant should be jailed for that in my opinion. (If drugs are legal, then kids can’t be taken from homes for drug abusing parents, have to be around people shooting up, carry for their parents, buy for their parents, cook their dope, it’s all good.)

The above issues are but a few, think it out, drug abuse AND homosexual behavior need to be illegal. It’s not all about the right to self-destruct.