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To: who_would_fardels_bear
All that is being advocated is that people should be allowed to openly disdain cohabitation.

Last I knew, your 1st Amendment rights absolutely guaranteed you your rights to display all the disdain towards cohabitation your little heart desires. Or are you contending that someone or something is not allowing you to openly disdain cohabitation?

114 posted on 10/10/2007 5:59:58 PM PDT by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963)
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To: Melas
They can call themselves conservative, but it seems as if they are deluding themselves.

And no I am not trying to be the "conservative cop" defining exactly who is and who isn't conservative.

But if the notion of conservative is so vague that people who believe cohabiting is good and people who believe cohabiting is bad can both call themselves conservative, then the term has no useful meaning any more.

And yes I know that I have a constitutional right to state the well-known fact that cohabitation is a bad thing. But there seems to be a certain spineless whininess among libertarians that if people actually assert their right to disdain an activity that it will eventually result in laws being enacted against such activity.

The cat is out of the bag on cohabitation. Silly people can choose this option and those silly people can claim that they are true blue conservatives. Silly people in the Catholic Church call themselves Catholics even though they support abortion and gay marriage. Silly people who call themselves Mormon support plural marriage. The list goes on and on.

The thing that we have to worry about is not a general disdain being enacted into a prohibition, but quiet in the face of absurdity metastasizing into a validation.

How conservative is it for states to subsidize health care for non-commital couples by letting them share a health plan that is otherwise only available to married couples?

117 posted on 10/10/2007 8:05:03 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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