[relictele]

It’s self-serving to say this but I have made this point a time or two in relation to school prayer, school dances, school sports, etc.

Fighting battles on the government’s turf is a guarantee of at least a partial loss. Get them out of the picture and the holier-than-thou left become pipsqueaks.

[ClearCase_guy]

Indeed. Williams states it very well, but the basic idea has been clear for awhile. I recently had a "discussion" with a neighbor who reflexively told me that, as a dictatorial rightwing meanie, I just wanted to tell other people what to do.

I just looked at her and said, "No. I want to be left alone. That's all I want. I'm not telling you what to do. But you are telling me what to do. You don't like the idea that I might make a choice that you wouldn't make. And you want to use to threat of violence, via the government, to force me to live my life as you see fit. That's all government is ever capable of doing. I want less of it. You want more of it. So he's the dictatorial meanie?"

She hates talking to me.