After my long post last week, “God and Government and Rights“, you might guess that I would be inclined to leave the subject alone for a bit. I will, at least as far as my writing about it goes, but not as far as my interest in thinking about it and reading the opinions of others goes. So on that note I want to point out a good article I ran into over the weekend at American Thinker entitled A Libertarian Defense of Social Conservatism. Well said! And mind you, the author says he’s “somewhere in the lapsed-Catholic-deist-agnostic-atheist spectrum”, so relax about the “another preachy Bible-thumper” thing.
Just think for a moment about the things you are actually forced to do or are prevented from doing. Seat belts. Motorcycle helmets. Bicycle helmets. Smoking. Gun purchase and ownership restrictions. Mandatory vaccines for your children. Car emissions inspections. Campaign ad and contribution restrictions. Saying a prayer at a public school graduation or football game. Trash separation and recycling. Keeping the money you earned. Gas tax. Telephone tax. Income tax. FICA withholding. Fill in this form. Provide ID.
For the most part, the list just cited is post-1960. Neither Pat Robertson nor James Dobson ever forced any of that on us.
I could pull-quote the whole thing but I won’t. It’s worth it to go read the whole thing. That is, if you’re not closed-minded or something of a Christian basher or something.
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