Why? All libertarianism really boils down to is principled freedom. No Nanny to make you do right, and plenty of suffering on your part with no safety net to shield you from your mistakes.
I am pro-Faith. I’m not a Christian, but I fully support your Right to believe as you will. I even support pre-game prayers, post-game prayers, prayer in schools, and public displays around the holidays. Inclusive, not exclusive. As it should be.
Of course, if part of your Religion is killing/ attacking others to force them to convert, like the Islamic radicals are after, then they need to be aware that our Second Amendment will send them swiftly to meet their Maker.
The LP fuzzy-headed types might take exception, it’s their Right to do so. This is my stance and it fits the logic i’ve worked put over the last twenty years of thinking about it...
“Why? All libertarianism really boils down to is principled freedom.”
From Russell Kirk’s essay on libertarians:
“The ruinous failing of the ideologues who call themselves libertarians is their fanatic attachment to a simple solitary principle-that is, to the notion of personal freedom as the whole end of the civil social order, and indeed of human existence. The libertarians are oldfangled folk, in the sense that they live by certain abstractions of the nineteenth century. They carry to absurdity the doctrines of John Stuart Mill....”
http://emp.byui.edu/DavisR/202/Libertarians.htm
No it boils down to that which you avoid.
Libertarian Party Platform:
Throw open the borders completely; only a rare individual (terrorist, disease carrier etc.) can be kept from freedom of movement through “political boundaries”, eliminate the Border Patrol and INS.
Homosexuals; total freedom in the military, gay marriage, adoption, child custody and everything else.
Abortion; zero restrictions or impediments full 9 months.
Pornography; no restraint, no restrictions.
Drugs; Meth, Heroin, Crack, and anything new that science and marketers can come up with, zero restrictions.
Advertising those drugs, prostitution, and pornography; zero restrictions.