We have a highly moralistic society that is not consistent with liberty.
This little tid-bit is completely inconsistent with the principles of liberty found in the writings of the founding fathers, and the books they used to research the principles of liberty. I don’t think I would be too far off the mark to list the Bible if not on top at least very close to the top of their research list.
This little tid-bit is completely inconsistent with the principles of liberty found in the writings of the founding fathers.....
That is because what the deviants are pointing to as their palladium, their be-all and end-all, isn't liberty, but what the Founders would have called "license" instead, or "licentiousness" if you will.
John Adams pointed out that our Republic was framed for a civilized society of self-regulating, self-governing, moral people (which is what "moral" means: mores are customs or habits internalized for the benefit of all) following Judaeo-Christian morality, only. He warned that our Republic would prove unsuitable for the governance of any other sort of society.
Which our Great Stone Heads in political leadership, like the Neocons and all the double-domers in the 'Rat Party like, say, Madeleine Albright, promptly show they've forgotten or never valued if they remembered it, whenever they rush off to countries worlds apart from our own, to perform the wonders of "nation-building".