[Capitalism2003]

I don't think Libertarians betray any party. They put principle above all else...party is a Libertarians will support ANYONE who fights for less government, lower regulation, lower taxes, and all around limits on government interference with personal matters. They want to reduce the role of government across the board, expanding every level of freedom in the process. Political parties (including theirs) are not as important as the advancement of this cause.

[swilhelm73]

Then again, for the fourth time or so, explain the Libertarian Party's support of Lawrence v. Texas, the sodomy decision?

Why didn't the LP, and libertarians in general, side with the Libertarian position as advanced by Justice Thomas?

I join Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinion. I write separately to note that the law before the Court today “is … uncommonly silly.” Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 527 (1965) (Stewart, J., dissenting). If I were a member of the Texas Legislature, I would vote to repeal it. Punishing someone for expressing his sexual preference through noncommercial consensual conduct with another adult does not appear to be a worthy way to expend valuable law enforcement resources.

Notwithstanding this, I recognize that as a member of this Court I am not empowered to help petitioners and others similarly situated. My duty, rather, is to “decide cases ‘agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States.’

Supporting leftist judicial tyranny for the potential bone of drug legalization is a horrific betrayal of both conservative and *libertarian* beliefs.