[marsh2]

Many libertarians and independents are participating in the Tea Parties because they are about small government, decentralized government, individual liberty and responsibility and fiscal accountability and restraint. If you start throwing in the social issues, you lose them. Mandated and legislated behavior and morality can be in opposition to individual liberty on many fronts.

[TheBigIf]

Except that most libertarians are not really libertarians at all. They just think that they are. You cannot claim to be for limited government and individual liberty and support the left-wing agenda of dictating from the Courts that the People have no say on what type of behavior they accept in their businesses. Or support a double standard in society whereas we force our troops to have to bunk with people who openly express a perverse desire for the same gender. These are not real libertarians but are phony. Any true libertarian would fully support the ‘right to association’ for all.

[MrB]

There can be no freedom without personal, individual, INTERNAL restraint. It’s simply an axiom, as individual internal controls are eschewed, external, governmental controls increase.

This is not a comment stating that the government should impose such restraints, quite the opposite. The individual must act in a moral way, or our liberty based Constitution will not be able to prevail.

[Godthencountry]

Pro-choice is not logically a libertarian view. As a libertarian I think responsibility is the key. Following that line if you choose to have unprotected sex and become pregnant then you must accept responsibility for the life inside you. You also have no reasonable expectation of taxpayer help. Go to your local churches for referral to someone who will help and accept the rough road you have chosen.