[LtdGovt]

How absurd. All civilized societies have laws telling people what they can't do. We don't let people "choose" murder, for example.

Civilized societies prevent citizens from harming other people's rights. However, there should be no concern for the small-minded so-called 'morality' of some people. If I want to gamble, or drink as much alcohol as I want to, then why should anyone be able to tell me not to do that? I propose that organisations like the Christian Coalition spend less time interfering in other people's lives, and more time on getting a life.

[hellbender]

What the heck does your libertarian rhetoric have to do with abortion, which IS murder of a human being?

None of the great figures of American history, who bequeathed us our Constitutional freedoms, were the least bit concerned about protecting your freedom to gamble, do drugs, or be drunk. Local and state governments were perfectly free to control such antisocial behavior, and did so.