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I’m not emotionalizing. I see it that way with all “decency” issues, even if I personally see something as indecent. It should be allowed as longs as a citizen’s rights are not affected

I isagree. I think you use the emotional side of rights as I feel a lot of Libertarians do. Where I see the real difference between the kind of conservative I am and the kind you are is that morality and virtue should be embraced in the community and that being so if they choose to embrace a standard that does not harm and does protect even though it restricts it is a good thing.

No, I do not see that ALL such things will be good. We will wrestle with such things and the people will ultimately decide unless they fail to do so and a judge wrongfully gets to decide against them or at them (you pick) If you feel that the lap dancing issue harms no one...stand up and enumerate the ways women and men are served by it. If you can not convince enough of your fellow men and women to support it then I would say you will be submitting to a new law or moving to a state where this precious right of expression and pleasure can be obtained.

There's a difference between morality and virtue being embraced in the community and being legislated from the capital. If the last few decades have taught us anything, it's the politicians are the last people qualified to tell us anything about public morality.

If you want to promote virtue, practice it and teach it to others. Don't use the police power of the state to enforce it. Is the man who stays away from the strip club because he's afraid of a fine any more virtuous than he was before there was a fine? Of course not. Just as coerced faith is not faith, coerced virtue is not virtue.