Sanford to Hang Mostly by Moral Majority's Rope

First, the political reality is that neither major party can change their profile on social issues much due to the legitimate, organic beliefs of all Americans, whether on the right or left.  Just as there is a substantial amount of people who are socially liberal, there is probably even more who are socially conservative.  For Republicans, social conservatives (along with the often overlapping military culture) provide the votes while businessmen, whether small or big, provide the money.  Americans have very different beliefs on important questions.  The two parties can't both have the same general answer.

More importantly, social conservative policies speak to many Americans as a solution to a culture that in many ways (but we must be careful to not say all ways) is in decline.  So now, the right shouldn't be against family breakdown, rampant divorce, etc. because some of its leaders fail morally?  What sense does that make?

I also resent the implication being made that religious believers need to shut up in the public square.  This goes against everything America was founded upon.  Are we telling atheists that they can't voice their beliefs?  No, and we shouldn't because everyone outside of neo-Nazis and Klansmen have a right to make the case for their belief system publicly.  I mean, I guess Martin Luther King Jr. should have remained silent, because ministers should only voice their concerns in church and at home.

This type of post is emblomatic of the decline of libertarainism into mere libertinism.  Think about it for a second, in which society will there be a smaller government, one with 10 percent illegitimacy and strong families, or 40 percent illegitimacy and weak families?  Government expands when the strength of non-state actors like families, churches, voluntary societies, or even unions contract.  For the sake of libertarianism, you should hope for a mostly traditional society.

Nobody gets beat up on the Internet more than social conservatives.  Young, tech savvy people are the natural antagonists of social conservatism and social conservatives are generally not around to defend themselves because I'm sure they're online less.  They don't have time to engage in comment wars.  Don't believe what you hear on websites and message boards are representative of America at large.

Thomas Jefferson:“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

James Madison“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”

George Washington:“The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!”

Daniel Webster“There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.”

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”

“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may ovenvhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” 

“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”

Noah Webster:“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed….No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty;

“If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes;

“Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded.

“If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

“Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And…the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.”

God damned sanctimonious moralizers.... they should have listened to the Max's of their day.. maybe they would have achieved something then.

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