[C. Edmund Wright]

There is a difference between believing in morality and virtue and wanting the government to get involved in mandating what it is and how we must do it.

So correct I thought it was worth re posting!!

[mrsmel]

The flip side is the government mandating that taxes of everyone must go to support their socially liberal agenda, and their side is winning. Sodomite “couples” will now be eliglble for all kinds of taxyer-funded goodies, thanks to the GOP’s, at best, “see no evil” approach to social conservatism.

[JediJones]

There is a difference between believing in morality and virtue and wanting the government to get involved in mandating what it is and how we must do it.

Sounds nice but how is that practically applied? That we believe same-sex marriage is wrong, but don't ask the government to require marriages to be opposite-sex? That we believe abortion is wrong, but allow the government to mandate that abortions are covered in health insurance?

To be laissez-faire on these issues, the government cannot provide any different taxes or benefits for married people vs. single people, and has to get out of the business of providing marriage licenses. And they can't pass any laws restricting abortion in any way, other than defining whether the baby can be murdered before or after the umbilical cord is cut.

The bottom line is the government has to define marriage and define when life begins. The only question is who will set the definition and what will it be. The platitude that the goverment "shouldn't be involved" is meaningless, and essentially the position the left has on abortion. I don't think the left would mind having the government ignore and not recognize the institution of marriage completely either.