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To: Finny
Because they understood that limited government is there to protect people's rights to DO things, not to prohibit people from indulging in moral failings.

So you think the laws against sodomy in all the states for 150 years were wrong? And that states should not be allowed to have such laws? How about abortion - should it be up to the states as well? How about pornography? Prostitution? There were laws against obscenity and prostituion in every state throughout most of our history, were such laws wrong in your mind?

539 posted on 07/01/2013 1:25:01 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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To: little jeremiah
Emotional knee-jerking has you assuming facts not in evidence. You assume that because I think the Founders DELIBERABELY refrained from using the Federal government to have laws against sodomy, prostitution, etc., that "such laws are wrong in [my] mind."

WHY didn't the founders outlaw sodomy, etc., or even murder for that matter, in the Constitution? Do you think they would have thought it wrong for the states to do so? NO???? Then why do you accuse me of it?

The Libertarian party with a big L is an official party. However, libertarian principles are indeed, as Reagan said, at the heart of conservatism.

And yes, as I have stated, I would be happy if Roe v Wade was overturned and given back to the states. It would be a HELL OF A LOT BETTER than what we have now, and what we have now is because Americans went against libertarian principle of limited government and allowed the Federal governent to impose Roe v Wade. I hope abortion would become illegal in all states but unlike you I RESPECT what the Founders and the Constitution defined as limited government.

STOP demonizing libertarian principles because of what the Libertarian party has done.

541 posted on 07/01/2013 1:57:46 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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