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To: Gene Eric

Here is how that is translated into a political agenda.

“”You Can Thank a Few Rich Libertarians for Gay Marriage””

“How do you get rich Republicans to support gay marriage? By appealing to their libertarian sensibilities. The New York Times is out with its lyrical, 2,000-plus-word tick-tock of how the gay-marriage fight was won, and it centers on a meeting between Governor Cuomo’s aides and Republican donors. Amid tuna and turkey sandwiches a few weeks ago, the governor’s aides tested whether billionaire Paul Singer and hedge-fund managers Cliff Asness and Dan Loeb would be willing to support the cause. Surprisingly they were, since they were “inclined to see the issue as one of personal freedom, consistent with their more libertarian views.”
With their help (read: $1 million plus) gay-rights groups could tell the four Republican senators who took a leap of faith and voted yes to the bill that there’d be money to catch their fall.”


51 posted on 02/06/2013 1:02:44 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: ansel12
It's not difficult to find inaccurate text. There's plenty that misrepresents Christianity too!

In reality, the aforementioned "appeal" is to liberalism, or leftism when combined with enforcement of law.

The establishment of law is simply not a tenet libertarianism especially when the laws results in the enforcement of supporting or servicing particular behaviors.

Libertarianism is in opposition to statism. It's not about morality, but about enforcement. Law only exists to be enforced. To pass law in the name of libertarianism doesn't make sense. For example, "homosexual marriage" law is about statism as it is designed to persecute those that refuse to service homosexual behavior. "homosexual marriage" law is rooted in Leftism through the combination of liberalism and statism; the morality of liberalism, the enforcement of statism.

Given libertarianism's proximity to anarchy, it's a week argument to hold libertarianism responsible for law that inevitably affects the citizens' behavior.

Here's my vision of the political structure in question:
            Statism
            
  (despots)    /\    (absolutists)
              /  \    
             /    \
 Leftism    /      \  Conservatism
            \      /
             \    /  
 (Liberals)   \  /   (Founding Tenets)
               \/
            
         Libertarianism


52 posted on 02/06/2013 2:39:43 PM PST by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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