[zencycler]

As a libertarian I can tell you that just because I don’t want the government, with the full force of law cracking down on citizens for certain behaviors - DOES NOT MEAN I FAVOR THOSE BEHAVIORS. There is a role for individual responsibility as well as family, church, and community intervention.

AMEN ... and as with many other areas in which the government is too involved, the notion that it's something the government should be handling leads many individuals, churches and communities to become increasingly negligent of their civic duties.

[Triple]

I hear you...

This is the one place where some republicans come off the rails of limited government. They want a nanny state for social issues even if it creates a nanny state that does some things they don’t want. This is why the political class duopoly of Democrats and Republicans exists today. (They trade pork with each other to maintain control.)

When was the last time the federal government actually got smaller? (Growing at a reduced rate is *not* getting smaller.)

These results are not by accident.