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rather than just let the above be a "drive by slam" here is a cut and paste I use for social conservatives who seem to think some really weird things about what libertarianism is:

Hope you enjoy:

All liberalism (classic liberalism, which is called libertarianism today) consists of is the idea that men are wicked and self serving, therefore the greatest mercy one can bestow in the political realm is seek to limit their power and make them compete with each other. It is a solidly BIBLICAL viewpoint which recognizes that men are predisposed to abuse power. It grew DIRECTLY out of Scottish and Swiss Reformed Christianity, which had experienced massive revivals of the Holy Spirit completely re-working the entire societies, including the intelligencia. Those men would be the first to tell you that no political or educational system is functional in an apostate society. No one is arguing that point that I know of. What I *AM* saying is that libertarianism is the best application of biblical observations about human nature in the realm of politics that we have come up with so far, excepting of course the return of the Great King.

What I took exception to was your silly statement that Christianity and Libertarianism are inimical. One birthed the other. Fundamentalists today --and especially the Dobson/Huckabee types-- want to reverse that order. (Government leadership in morality). It won't work, and will lead to tyranny.

If you want to change the subject and state that what we really need is revival and a movement of God in our culture, I will simply move over and ask you to sing beside me on that one. Real true revival is desperately needed. North America is the only continent in the world where Christianity is not growing, but receding. The proper venue to seek that is through prayer, though, not the ballot box

Finally, when you see CHRISTIAN libertarians arguing for legalization of drugs or similiar stuff, you should not assume (as many mindless fundamentalists do) that we are just saying these are ok. Rather it is like this passage in Deuteronomy 24.

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Note that Jesus himself says (Matthew 19 and Mark 10) that this LAW DOES NOT REFLECT THE WILL OF GOD. IN FACT, IT PERMITS A GREAT EVIL. Divorce is something that God hates (Malachi 2:16). Yet the civil law given by the finger of God permitted it. Why? Because the law and political structures are not INTENDED to transform societies. They CANNOT do so.Their purpose (and thus their blessing) is to restrain evil, and you should note that the purpose is not to restrain ALL evil. If you try to build a society whose laws reflect the directive will of God, you will only impose tyranny, and turn what is a blessing into a curse. Again, Law CANNOT transform men, as men who run the system are evil and men will not obey "oppressive" laws, even when the laws are good and would be a blessing.

Hey, look at that, Jesus sounds like a libertarian there, doesn't He? He says clearly that the law of God PERMITTED divorce because of the evil of men's hearts. The only thing he does not do is follow through and explain that we should NOT have laws prohibiting every evil because this will lead to tyranny, or too much power collectivized in government. Of course Jesus did not make ANY political prescriptions did he? That is just a logical application of what little he did say.

The above is why I make the statement that those who say that libertarianism is hostile to Christianity understand neither.