Posted on 03/31/2006 7:39:09 AM PST by NYer
If it's morally wrong and you think that as a result the law should stop it, society changes, and eventually, the people who are morally wrong will eventually turn that abuse of power back on you or your children after they gain power. SEE segregation/affirmative action, sodomy/gay "tolerance" regs, tariff barriers/"free trade." SEE ALSO affirmative action/racism, gay "tolerance" regs/gay bashing, "free trade"/xenonausea.
The best way to stop moral perversity is to shun it or protest it freely. Banning it both makes the banned act "subversive" and thus attractive to rebellious youth, and perverts the law to use for ends not suited to one who prefers a limited government.
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Well, I may have a largely vegetarian diet, and I do like to go hiking, but I remain a greedy capitalist pig. Therefore, this description does not suit me.
I wasn't planning on buying that book-even though Kate O'Beirne is one of my favorite contributors/editors at National Review-until the left wing slime machine decided to wage a concerted jihad against her, which turned out to be yet another tactical mistake of the type we've come to expect from the geniuses that think Howard Dean is a political visionary.
The "crunchy conservatives" would have a far greater chance of success had they moved north to Canada. That country's political heritage would have allowed a more authority-based conservatism to prosper (Toryism). They did have Red Toryism in their history, mind you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tory
"Yep and the crunchy stuff all goes back to church teachings on subsidiarity and how it relates to family and community."
Exactly. And no free crunch :^)
Other than that potential problem, Dreher was a terrific writer for the New York Post and the rest of what is expressed in the article makes it likely that the book should be read by textured conservatives determined to preserve and expand Western Civilization. Getting one's kids out of the maw of the gummint skewels to be homeschooled by parents who love them and will impart wisdom, substantial knowledge unavailable at gummint skewels, and a fighting spirit is a BIG strategy which will guarantee future leadership to family, Church, nation and civilization. Let's help Dreher make it reality.
If it were not for baseball, football, C-SPAN (to keep an eye on the enemy) and Fox News, the television could evaporate too!
I don't know if you saw this. I just read it and I like it. I loathe Berkenstocks though.
Yeah, I noticed that too.
It's funny, because on another forum someone invoked the Taliban to denounce another user who was not in favor of mandatory condom distribution in public schools.
The problem with your viewpoint is that currently, in many respects, gov't (both state and fedgov) are merely servants of large corporate interests and laws and passed merely to please their masters. So economic concerns cannot be addressed merely at the cultural level.
Separation of Corporation and State!
Here's a thought: On many threads about raunch - whether porn, seriously nasty computer games, and the like - people will say things like "let the market decide", if people don't like it they won't buy it, it's legal, and so on.
This proves that letting the market decide in all matters is to slide off into the abyss. I've said more than once that capitalism without being informed by morality winds up little better than communism. DIfferent, but little better. Inevitably conflict arises between the rights of corporations to make money how they choose, and the rights of people to not have to live in a sewer.
PREACH IT BRO!
FAR, FAR, FAR TOO TRUE.
Not sure how far it will get before the various end times conflagrations but great to see the rise of such perceptiveness.
Have long wondered what The Millenium culture, life would look like . . . and speculated that it would be a lot more in line with this sort of focus than anything else I've read.
Have even wondered if God was going to reduce technology back to a very aggrarian sort of life . . . if not hunter/gatherer . . . in part, forcing a more relational based culture.
If we'd followed The Manual, we could have had the best of all worlds . . . but no, man knew better than even God . . . or thought he did.
So, the GREAT OBJECT LESSON for all creation looms ahead.
Say it now and say it loud.
I'm a Crunchy Con and I'm proud.
(Call me anything except late for dinner.)
Very good. But how exactly are we "crunchy?" Sounds too close to "brittle" for me.
IOW, as in the actual Constitution.
Exactly.
You should run for office. I'll vote for you!
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