If I say I support the Drug War, and Anti-Homosexual Laws, and Anti-Abortion Laws, then I will get a hundred posts from Libertarians calling me a Taliban and telling me to get the burquas (sp).
I don`t think that your first statement is completely fair. You don`t get compared to the Taliban anytime you post something people disagree with, you get compared to the Taliban when you start talking about legislating according to your own religious convictions. Homosexuality is an obvious example. If two people of the same sex engage in consentual sexual activity behind closed doors, it is no-ones business but their own. If it is abhorrent to God, let them answer for it on their day of judgement. After all, how can what people do behind closed doors affect your personal relationship with God?
Look at it like this. If Jehovah`s Witnesses were in charge of the Government and started legislating against Christmas, Birthdays and blood transfusions, what would you do? You would probably scream bloody murder, as would I. The same principle applies when I see Christians who want to legislate how I live my by their standards.
This topic comes up frequently on FreeRepublic. Why is it so hard for you to understand?
my relationship with god is independent of what others are doing.
society has laws to protect us from each other. god's laws do the same thing, but with only about 50% proclaiming faith and half of those claiming an active faith, most of us are not following god's laws regarding how to live life.
with respect to homosexuality, it is against god's laws, so it is wrong. if all they did was what they did behind closed doors, it is none of my business as you have said. however, homosexuals want to come out of the closet, have parades proclaiming their life style and inflicting their ways in society. their lifestyle is against god's lifestyle, that being the family as the nuclear unit. it affects society and as such is my business.
This topic comes up frequently on FreeRepublic. Why is it so hard for you to understand?
ACTUALLY sometimes I think more of me is Libertarian than not. . . . however. . .
It seems to me your argument ASSUMES that there is NO Ultimate Authority; NO perfect law; NO Ultimate standard of morality, no Ultimate Accountability.
Or, you might say--Oh, there is, but I disagree on where to draw the line.
Certainly where to draw the line can be a sticky wicket. But there is some interesting evidence that touches on all this. . . . Crime varies inversely with church attendance--statistics back for 200 years, if I recall accurately, attest to this in every study done on it. Do we legislate church attendance? I don't think that would work, for one. I don't think it would help. I think God looks on the heart as tooooo big a priority.
If you were aware that homosexuality above a miniscule proportion of a population resulted in lack of rain; drought for extended years--would you consider that a harm to others?
If you studied the lives of homosexuals with more or less endless short time stands; high suicide; high depression etc. . . and concluded that homosexuality was not the big thrill some media and other lobbyists made it out to be--and that seduction/recruitment was much higher of minors than heterosexual such was--would you consider it then a harm to others?
If you considered that easy divorce; abortion; welfare excesses; alcoholism etc. undermined the family unit and thereby society resulting in higher crime, higher disease rates, higher violence, higher disregard for human life; higher disregard for commitments, responsibility and higher aversion to doing the right thing in relationships and society--would you consider that a harm to others?
So then Thomas Jefferson was a Taliban because he crafted Virginia's anti-sodomy law. ;-)