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03-22-2016, 02:48 PM
The thing that most people forget is the pendulums swing both ways. For years the Judeo-Christian teachings dominated in our culture and they translated into laws such as prohibition, gay marriage, etc.
We are now finding our culture swinging the other way and strong efforts are being put forth to make things Christians do illegal.
Libertarians need to understand this pendulum concept as well. True libertarians believe you should be able to live your life any way you choose as long as you are hurting someone else's.
A Christian who chooses to teach his children that homosexuality is a sin (which of course, the Bible does say) is having his rights infringed by society approving gay marriage through licensing and thus "teaching" the children something else. A gay couple who chooses to marry is having their rights infringed by being asked to go to a different baker for their cake when that baker says it is against his beliefs.
Both are offensive to the other, but neither is truly hurting the other. A true libertarian would side with both of them. Let the criteria be genuine damage, and not offense.
When we come to a place (as we are) when laws and public policy are based on who is offended we have walked as far away from libertarianism as we can get.
We are now finding our culture swinging the other way and strong efforts are being put forth to make things Christians do illegal.
Libertarians need to understand this pendulum concept as well. True libertarians believe you should be able to live your life any way you choose as long as you are hurting someone else's.
A Christian who chooses to teach his children that homosexuality is a sin (which of course, the Bible does say) is having his rights infringed by society approving gay marriage through licensing and thus "teaching" the children something else. A gay couple who chooses to marry is having their rights infringed by being asked to go to a different baker for their cake when that baker says it is against his beliefs.
Both are offensive to the other, but neither is truly hurting the other. A true libertarian would side with both of them. Let the criteria be genuine damage, and not offense.
When we come to a place (as we are) when laws and public policy are based on who is offended we have walked as far away from libertarianism as we can get.
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We are now finding our culture swinging the other way and strong efforts are being put forth to make things Christians do illegal.
Libertarians need to understand this pendulum concept as well. True libertarians believe you should be able to live your life any way you choose as long as you are hurting someone else's.
A Christian who chooses to teach his children that homosexuality is a sin (which of course, the Bible does say) is having his rights infringed by society approving gay marriage through licensing and thus "teaching" the children something else. A gay couple who chooses to marry is having their rights infringed by being asked to go to a different baker for their cake when that baker says it is against his beliefs.
Both are offensive to the other, but neither is truly hurting the other. A true libertarian would side with both of them. Let the criteria be genuine damage, and not offense.
When we come to a place (as we are) when laws and public policy are based on who is offended we have walked as far away from libertarianism as we can get.