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To: Socon-Econ; Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; wagglebee; DJ MacWoW; trisham; BykrBayb; ...
Libertarians argue that we can’t define marriage because any definition moves us down a “slippery slope” toward undue interference with personal freedoms.

Bunk.

Well said.

By demanding that the government allow all kinds of *marriages* under the guise of *not defining* them, it FORCES the government to define marriage.

From the government's position, it's a lose/lose situation. By defining it as the traditional monogamous, one man/one woman at a time scenario, libertarians don't like it. By refusing to define it, the government IS by default defining it as anything goes.

What libertarian and others want is that the government define it the way THEY want, under the false premise that it is a neutral position.

When if comes to moral issues, there is no neutral position.

24 posted on 07/21/2011 1:00:28 PM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: metmom

Well said!

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29 posted on 07/21/2011 1:39:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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