I can only go by what I've seen from Libertarians on a few other boards, and by their party platform, which reads to me as an open endorsement of the homosexual agenda's UnConstitutional plan to impose a mockery of marriage on the entire nation via Judicial fiat.
Libertarians are not libertines. The Constitution says what it does in plain English. The meaning of words to libertarians is essential, they are rational folks.
Maybe libertines are coopting the Libertarian label then?
In the case of Roe, the SCOTUS made a bogus ruling. The State laws were in fact proper under both the Constitution and under libertarian theory. They were properly enacted laws, that protected the right to life. You obviously missed my previous posts. I explicitly said, that under libertarian theory, the only justification for govm't is to protect life and individual rights. The baby is an individual life. No one else has the right to kill it, including ma. SCOTUS justified it's action by redefining words. The 4th Amend protects the right to privacy by requiring a specific procedure for searches. The right to privacy does not negate law. Should a proper warrant be issued and evidence for a crime be uncovered, the evidence can be used to prosecute. The fact that the right to privacy existed and was subject to due process violation does not mean that the law was, or could be invalidated. The SCOTUS redefined the word "privacy", so that it now means "willed behavior", instead of simply "the right to keep matters hidden". They created an open set of behaviors which now can not be restricted by legislation. The first behavior was abortion, the hiring of a professional to kill and dispose of the unborn. Sodomy now acompanies abortion in that set. Hell will freeze over before they add income tax evasion to the set. The other step they made was to give their own arbitrary definition and conditions for when life begins. That is legislation, which under the Constitution is left to the people, under the 9th and 10th and the States under the 10th and to the feds by Amendment, not to the fed courts. The libertarian recognizes this as plain as day.
I agree with what you are saying. Justice Rehnquist's dissent in Roe was the proper Constitutional opinion. Social issues were not ment to be dictated by an all-powerful centralized authority, be it the Judiciary or the Federal Government. Back to the marriage issue however, I've seen libertarians support the judicial redefinition of marriage, despite the fact that it is entirely a usurpation of Constitutional authority. No reading of the Constitution could support SCOTUS inventing a new right to redefine marriage.
The Libertarian party is a political party, it is open to anyone. It's impact is zilch. Bill Maher, the famous democrat claimed to be a libertarian. He is not a libertarian. Goldwater was a libertarian and he was a Repulican.
"Back to the marriage issue however, I've seen libertarians support the judicial redefinition of marriage, despite the fact that it is entirely a usurpation of Constitutional authority.
Was his name Bill Maher? Only artists and con men redefine words.
"Social issues were not ment to be dictated by an all-powerful centralized authority, be it the Judiciary or the Federal Government."
"Social Issues" is a rather broad and concept. In the case of marriage, the meaning has been well defined for thousands of years. I realize that polygamy exists elsewhere, but it was rejected here by the people. All 50 states use the conventional meaning. Congress and the feds do also. It's only particular judges within the court system that refuse to recognize this. Notice that they are D, or RINO. The courts however, don't have the power to redefine words the people use. Only the people can do that, and that's why the NEA schools fail to teach logic and obliterate the meaning of words.
Take a look at the link I gave to oblomov, that links to Prof. Lakoff. Screwing up the meaning of words is important to the left. The leaders of the left abhor rational thought, they communicate to the masses in feeling/emotion. There is no rationality in feeling. Once the people's mind is gone, they can keep them happy with sex and other entertainment. That's not libertarian action, that's leftist action-the D party.