“Saying that the prevention of sin is not the proper nor effective province of government is not “to toy with sin.”
It is the proper province of CHRISTIANS to protect that element of the culture that best reflects Biblical values.
That is the darkness you are toying with.
And if you flirt with the darkness, eventually it will overcome you. And if you extend that to your nation, eventually it will infold that nation.
And don’t try to pretend that your claim that you don’t personally use drugs recreationally absolves you of what you are doing to others. If you loading a pistol with one bullet and hand that gun to others to play Russian roulette (especially children), you are responsible for what happens to them.
And Jim Robinson — as all true conservatives know — that what Jim posts as the definition of conservatism comes from the Founding Fathers, who understood what I’ve been saying all along, that liberty will only endure as long as there is a moral code of voluntary individual restraint. The Founding Fathers relied on the Christian Church to carry that message to the people to safeguard liberty. You are a part of that group of 1960’s radical leftists (whether you know it or not and whether you acknowledge it or not) that is subverting “the establishment” and primarily that cultural code of ethics that has safeguarded our liberty for over 200 years. Your course of action, while you call it move toward greater liberty, has been proving to be (since the Progressive began their assault on traditional America) the destruction of our liberties. When their leftist actions lead to greater problems, their solution is always greater government control.
Just say no to nannies? Sure thing. But you need to understand that you are ideologically in bed with those nannies you claim to despise.
It is the proper province of CHRISTIANS to protect that element of the culture that best reflects Biblical values.
Absolutely - but not by force, which is government's stock in trade.
If you loading a pistol with one bullet and hand that gun to others to play Russian roulette (especially children),
As I pointed out in post #30, since kids report that they can now get marijuana more easily than cigarettes or beer, it follows that the best way to restict their access to drugs is to make them legal for adults only (thus giving those who sell to adults a disincentive to sell to kids - namely, the loss of their legal adult market).
liberty will only endure as long as there is a moral code of voluntary individual restraint.
Irrelevant to drug criminalization, which is a LEGAL code of INvoluntary restraint.
But you need to understand that you are ideologically in bed with those nannies you claim to despise.
Nannies wear pants - does that mean I should stop wearing pants?