[JCEccles]

"Lifestyle X should be punished by the state's police power".

How about: "People who speak out against Lifestyle X or who protest the indoctrination of their children into it shall be punished by the state."

There's social liberalism, Rudy Giuliani style, in a nutshell. There's your coercive big government. There's reality. It's a shame you are so blind you can't see it.

[RexTheRunt]

All I'm looking for is the candidate who will use the coercive power of the state neither to advocate, nor to castigate, unpopular lifestyles.

None found to date in either major party.