[FormerLib]

Clearly, you've made a logical error in equating society with the state and you attempt to use them as interchangeable concepts when they are, in fact, quite different.

The state is expected to support society and the moral traditions that allow it to exist. The left want the state to destroy those myriad aspects of the society that they do not like, never realizing they are opening the door to anarchy....with the exception of those who do realize it but are stupid enough to think this would be desirable.

[steve-b]

you've made a logical error in equating society with the state

Er, BurgessLau didn't write the article. Somebody named "John Mark Reynolds" did. Take it up with him.

[BurgessLau]

Individual and governmental morality (which means politics) should be based on a philosophy of reason -- not on fideism, Biblicism, traditionalism, dictation by the majority ("democracy"), consensus (majoritarianism), pragmatism, or multiculturalist averaging. On the issue of "gay marriage" my position is this: I see no justification for government getting involved in *any* marriages -- homosexual or heterosexual. To do so is socialism. The state's only function here should be to adjudicate contract disputes in case of dissolution.