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Well written, Finny. It’s government that’s imposing homosexuality and abortion on the public, not the other way around. If we accept the premise that Rand Paul actually wants smaller government, then how can he support all these judges who are imposing homosexual marriage against the express will of the people?

These libertines (er...libertarians) seem intent on imposing a libertine social agenda or at least doing nothing to stop it. They don’t respect the right of communities to decide their own standards which is the very essence of “small” government. As far as cutting government goes, the only area they seem intent on slashing is national defense, one of the few enumerated powers of the federal government that is legit.

Thank you for your kind words. Though you may rescind them when you learn that I differentiate, as does Palin and Cruz, between official Libertarian (big L) Libertarians (who are actually progressive leftists that advance the antithesis of limited smaller government and falsely label themselves "Libertarian" and have hijacked the meaning the same way that the left has hijacked the meaning of the word "gay") and self-described small-l libertarians.

Real libertarians in America are dominated by Americans who are good and moral folks who simply want government, especially the Federal government, off their backs. They include God-loving, God-fearing Americans such as my elderly and very Christian mother, a politically active conservative who voted straight Republican ticket all her life, starting in 1950, in every primary and every election, until 2012. She refused to vote for Romney. There will be people on here who will therefore slander my mother as being a pro homosexual perversity pro drug abuser pro abortion pro child pornography monster simply because she self-defines as small l libertarian.

Libertines and libertarians are very different from each other. However, it pleases the egos of a small but very loud and bullying (not to mention deceitful false witness-bearing) minority on FR to pretend otherwise. :^) If they said to my mother's face what they would say to her on FR, they would have their teeth knocked down their throats by some very angry good men, and rightly.

And another AMEN:

If we accept the premise that Rand Paul actually wants smaller government, then how can he support all these judges who are imposing homosexual marriage against the express will of the people?

And you're right about government imposing abortion, too. Nearly two thirds of the states rightly outlawed abortion, before Roe v Wade served to OVERRIDE them.