re: Every brand of everything you own in your home is celebrating homosexuality this month.

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Not any more so than heterosexuality being use to market things for, well, ever

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Ummmm..Texas A&M fan! Ok now we know what side of the plate you swing from!

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When you leave college and get into the real world you may realize libertarianism is best left behind on campus

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And perhaps you may someday awaken to the reality that Freedom entails the possibility that consenting adults may engage in conduct that you find abhorrent. Such a realization protects the individual liberty of both the hedonist and the virtuous, the heathen and the devout. This is because the larger and more centralized the power of the State, the greater the threat to everyone’s individual liberty.

I certainly do not seek to impose the predominate cultural values of Alabama upon the citizens of, say, San Francisco’s Castro district. Yet that philosophy of “live and let live” should likewise be reciprocated to the citizens of Alabama. This is why as a libertarian, I support the governing principle of subsidiary.


The Subsidiarity Principle....

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....Devolving political power is the first step toward making government smaller and less powerful in our lives. Your local city council may be dumb as a box of rocks or even evil, but at the very least it is far more accessible to you. Its damage is likely to be contained, and your ability to flee its jurisdiction may require nothing more than a cross-town U-Haul rental.

Subsidiarity is the most realistic and pragmatic approach to creating more freedom in our lifetimes. Winning 51% support for supposedly universalist political principles is a daunting challenge, especially for minority libertarians. We would do well instead to consider the Swiss Federal Model , which champions the subsidiarity principle:

Powers are allocated to the Confederation, the cantons and the communes in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity.

The Confederation only undertakes tasks that the cantons are unable to perform or which require uniform regulation by the Confederation.

Under the principle of subsidiarity, nothing that can be done at a lower political level should be done at a higher level.

Imagine Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump campaigning on this idea in 2016: “I can’t claim to know what’s best for Des Moines or Bangor or Anchorage or Phoenix in every situation. I'm not omnipotent, and neither are 500-odd members of Congress. We should leave most things up to the people who actually live in those towns. Vote for me if you agree.”

Subsidiarity is not perfect, just better. Freedom, in the political sense of the word, means the ability to live without government coercion (anarchists and minarchists debate whether all government is inherently coercive). It does not mean the ability to live under broadly agreed-upon liberal norms, simply because truly universalist political norms are so elusive.

Free societies don’t attempt to impose themselves politically on electoral minorities any more than they attempt to impose themselves militarily on neighboring countries. Politically unyoking different constituencies in America makes far more sense than attempting to contain the hatred and division created by mass majority outcomes.

The world is moving toward decentralization, flattening itself and replacing hierarchies with networks. Libertarians should work to move politics and government in the same direction. Subsidiary is real diversity in practice.

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Good thing I don’t have a problem with homosexuals then.

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I don’t either. However, I don’t feel the need to celebrate the gay lifestyle, especially for a whole month.

My concern is as to when (not if) pedos become the focal point of the leftist umbrella. They are next up on the list for leftists to promote.

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Wow, maybe you are a little wound up?

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You responded to my post above telling me I’m full of b.s. and to frick off. And I’m a little wound up?



Look, I’m here to make friends. And if not friends, “frenemies.”


Now, if you really want to encage in a conversation, great. If you want to exchange profanities, I’m game for that too: you get what you give with me.

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Explain how the government intrusion into private lives has led to the absolute celebration of sexual deviance that we find today within the alphabet community...

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Because of the metaphor of the camel’s nose. Once a government has been granted the power to dictate the morality of what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms, it permanently opened the door to the government having a purview and say on such matters.

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Further, explain how it is the government's fault that we find ourselves on the slippery slope, WHEN you don't care what people do in their bedrooms in their PRIVATE lives...

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I didn’t say I didn’t care. Indeed, whether between homosexuals or heterosexuals, sodomy is inherently an unsanitary and risky sexual fetish.

Yet if consensual, such acts are not crimes against another person like assault or theft. What I don’t care for is an intrusive Police State mechanism that would be necessary to regulate such behavior.

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In reality what's needed is a strong authoritarian state that says "if you push degeneracy we will take your business from you"

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With the destruction of the church, there’s no one to safeguard and promote moral behavior.

What will happen, and I think we’re seeing it, is that morality and basic virtue will decay with each generation.

We’re at the point where the bottom is falling out.

I gotta hand it to the LGBTQ community. For making up just 4-5% of the entire US population they sure do have a lot of power.

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Libertarianism is incompatible with a Christian worldview that seeks to honor God in all things, and therefore I cannot accept it.

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Then you reject the whole of the American Revolution. This nation was founded upon libertarian principles. On that matter there is no debate.

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Then you reject the whole of the American Revolution. This nation was founded upon libertarian principles. On that matter there is no debate.

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Libertarianism isn't what this country was founded upon.

No, the founders weren't libertarians who believed that the government cannot coerce others except to prevent coercion (the typical libertarian understanding of liberty, which is you can do whatever you want so long as you don't harm others). Instead, the founders were federalists that believed the federal government should have limited power and authority and that the states were free to govern themselves as they saw fit, within the understanding that they (the states) were to promote the common good. The common good or well-being included the moral good and well-being, which is why they had official state religions/churches and morality laws all over the place. There were regulations on sexuality, prostitution, gambling, and all sorts of vices associated with a Christian worldview that permeated society at the time that run contrary to libertarianism.

The founders wanted limited federal government but promoted the freedom of the states to govern according to their own views of the common (moral) good.

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If the Founding Fathers had been libertarians, we'd all still be subjects of the Crown.

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Are you kidding?

The Revolution was based upon the radical idea that Natural Rights supersede any temporal Government power. This is a core tenet of libertarianism.

The theory of Natural Law is indeed inherently critical of all political institutions because it’s tenets are immutable, universal and everlasting. To paraphrase Murray Rothbard, any revolt against a tyrannical state is ipso facto a small “l” libertarian movement.

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Nah, a push for true pedophilia (sexual attraction to and relationships with pre-pubescent children) will never be normalized in western society.

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It is already happening. After years of being told that talk of a “slippery slope” was an absurd right-wing fantasy, this entire “transgender” agenda has morphed into a grooming session for pedophilia and all other manner of debased behavior.

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