SPOT ON your comment Ken! I couldn’t have said it better myself. Next time see if you can work in Seperate but Equal while you are at it 🙂

I think Ken’s questions above are very telling. Let’s add something to that. Rick Santorum believes the Federal Government should outlaw birth control. I’m assuming he means ‘artificial birth control’, which may well include sterilization, the largest birth control method used by middle and upper class whites.

Will Evangelicals be on-board with this legislation? Which ones, when and how? You can only push people so far, until their own ox is gored, then comes the ah-ha moment. When it’s someone else’s behavior, not mine, I can be as glib and judgmental, and get on a band wagon of … “throw out all the ‘bad’ guys” … til I realize I’m one of the bad guys, according to someone else’s code of ethics.

Secondly, libertarianism doesn’t support a top-down system, where the federal government can impose its values on anyone.

There’s a possible conflict of ideas. But you have the same conflict in any other political philosophy which supports a particular ethics and as well a democratic procedure (risking that the procedure results in something which doesn’t conform with your ethics).

The only way to avoid this at all is to abolish democratic procedure. (You can’t use the term “human rights” to circumvent democratic procedure, because then there’s the next question: Who by what procedure defines what’s “human rights”.) Of course you can shape democratic procedure so that it’s more gay-friendly. But is that really a problem of federal government vs. states?

Sincerely, a gay-friendly dictatorship would serve gays’ interests best (like all other minorities); so gays have to consider if it’s worth the risk.

Do you believe he will actively oppose gay rights or simply ignore the issue?

What do you believe Paul would (and could) do about gay rights if elected?”

StraightGrandmother = I think it will depend on whom he surrounds himself with.