Mike Huckabee, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012 says the effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy and drug use...
While conservatives all agree on this, I can easily see how the pro-drug Libertarians would be spitting mad over this.
I'll bet you dollars to donuts they are not against "legalized drug use" when it comes to beer and caffeine. Heck, I suspect that you'd be battered and bruised if you tried to get between the Huckabee family and their Pepsi and Mountain Dew.
No thanks.
While conservatives all agree on this, I can easily see how the pro-drug Libertarians would be spitting mad over this.
Actually, I had a bit of a problem with that comparison. I think that by comparing gay marriage to drug use he is falling into the same trap a lot of other people do...treating gay marriage as a right to action rather than the positive right it is. The banning of drugs is a ban on certain private behaviors, but the ban on gay marriage is not. Gays can already live together and do whatever they want with each other. A right to gay marriage would require that others recognize them as a married couple, whether they believe in gay marriage or not. This is what makes gay marriage a positive right rather than a traditional individual right. Failure to recognize this (or recognizing it and putting positive rights on the same level as rights to action) is probably my biggest problem with the advocates of gay marriage. So it was a little disheartening to see an opponent of gay marriage make the same mistake.