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To: Tailgunner Joe; tacticalogic
tacticalogic

Paradoxically, that's going to get you labeled as a liberal/libertarian when it comes time to talk about using the federal government as a means of controlling individual vices.

Tgun Joe:

How about when liberals/libertarians loudly appladed the federal government imposing its immorality on the states in the Lawrence vs. Texas sodomy case? That's pretty paradoxical too, right?

Wrong, -- the fed-gov didn't impose 'immorality', [it has no 'moral' powers, nor do States].
The Constitution was used by the USSC to 'strike down' a State infringement of a fundamental property right, -- the right to close your bedroom door and act as you please with another consenting adult.

The paradox is in a constitutional conservative claiming a State has the power to prohibit misdemeanor sin & dictate morality.

148 posted on 05/03/2006 5:35:06 PM PDT by tpaine
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To: Tailgunner Joe

No comment on my rebuttal of your view of Lawrence v Texas?

-- The Constitution was used by the USSC to 'strike down' a State infringement of a fundamental property right, -- the right to close your bedroom door and act as you please with another consenting adult.





173 posted on 05/03/2006 7:00:39 PM PDT by tpaine
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