[Hemingway's Ghost]

I have absolutely no problem with your SoCon values, friend. I simply have a problem with you enforcing your values on me through the exercise of government power. Just like you, for instance, may have a problem with the Homosexual Agenda enforcing its values on you through the exercise of government power. It's the exact same dynamic in action; you support it when the power acts in your favor, and rail against it when it does not.

That whole tyranny of the majority thing is lost on you, I guess. Sad, because I admire the passion with which you fight for your cause.

Me, a hypocrite? I practice what I preach. I oppose the government shoving the homosexual agenda down my throat for the same reason I'm pro decrim: it's none of the government's business in either case.

Remove the plank from you own eye before you concern yourself with the plank in mine, friend. It's your ideology that rests on a contorted and inconsistent footing, not mine.

[sargon]

I simply have a problem with you enforcing your values on me through the exercise of government power. Just like you, for instance, may have a problem with the Homosexual Agenda enforcing its values on you through the exercise of government power. It's the exact same dynamic in action; you support it when the power acts in your favor, and rail against it when it does not.

That whole tyranny of the majority thing is lost on you, I guess.

Indeed, and well said. Such a narrow, "majority rule" view of American Liberty is simply wrong, and often hypocritical, as you have noted.

As long as I'm not infringing on another individual's rights, my concept of the "pursuit of happiness" is not bound by any other individual's or group's authoritarian whims.

That's true whether I decide I want to have a drink, smoke a joint, own a gun, or whatever.

American freedom shouldn't be reduced to its "lowest common denominator" by some amalgam of authoritarian majorities, whether left, center, or right, who seek to criminalize an individual's free choices, in the absence of any actual crime.