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To: Daveinyork
And where does the Constitution say that the government may rearrange society's fundamental moral commitments by force?

Of course limiting government is about making the government respect its proper limits. That isn't in dispute. It's a tautology. You are arguing for the proposition that the government can, consistently with the principles of classical liberalism (John Locke and all that)destroy the sexual morality that under-girds the most successful culture in human history. Sorry but that's both crazy and utterly inconsistent with limited government. Government big enough to redesign our morality is much too big to respect any limits on its power.

Incidentally, your reference to the dietary laws couldn't be more beside the point. We didn't build a civilization on the principle that eating ham is wrong. We did build a civilization on the principle that sex is a profoundly serious matter of life and death not to be trifled with.

82 posted on 02/14/2011 9:20:11 AM PST by fluffdaddy (Is anyone else missing Fred Thompson about now?)
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To: fluffdaddy

“And where does the Constitution say that the government may rearrange society’s fundamental moral commitments by force?”

A smaller government would not do that.


84 posted on 02/14/2011 9:21:58 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: fluffdaddy
You are arguing for the proposition that the government can, consistently with the principles of classical liberalism (John Locke and all that)destroy the sexual morality that under-girds the most successful culture in human history.

I would argue that it's impossible for government to destroy sexual, or any other element of, morality.

If the population was moral to begin with, they didn't lose their moral compass as a result of anything the government did.

145 posted on 02/14/2011 11:08:51 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Who's Damaged America More? (a) Al Qaeda (b) Wall Street Investment Bankers)
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