From an article on WorldNetDaily.com:
There was a time when I considered myself something of a libertarian.
I never liked the label “conservative.” Conservatives for me were … well … too conservative, for lack of a better way of saying it. I actually wanted to shrink the federal government down to a size reflecting its strict constitutional limitations. Not many conservatives actually believe that. And even fewer act on those convictions when they have the chance.
So, for a while in my life, I considered myself a “Christian libertarian.”
But not many libertarians, I found, agreed with me about protecting our borders, a clear constitutional imperative of the federal government under the Constitution. Most of them were open-borders utopians.
Most libertarians also have utopian notions about drugs, too.
Read the rest here: The trouble with libertarians http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=310397#ixzz1PDvlneDe
http://www.nolanchart.com/article4201_Sound_Sense_on_SameSex_Marriage.html
Farah is the epitome of the red-state fascist. He was a warmongering neocon idiot 10 years ago and he remains one. LP members should be thankful if Farah keeps his confused followers as far away from the LP as possible.
He would rather see your children dead and your grandchildren crippled by debt than end his crusade against Israel’s enemies and the Christian right’s culture wars.
What the ………. WHICH Christian Theocracy? Rome in the 1500s and 1600s where the oligarchy leaned on pre Christian PAGANs [Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Grape, Astronomer Ptolemy] to bully [and even exterminate] good hearted Christian Brainiacs like Father Bruno, Professor Galileo and Sir Issac Newton ?????????
I find it amusing [in a sad, sad way] when Libertarians treat libertarianism in America like ordering a Pizza.
I find it amusing when people treat libertarianism in America like ordering a Pizza, and any reference to the european model a slight dis to history.
@6 ‘the ideal political system’ .. I think you are right that that is the direction of his inclinations, though he also appears to hold other positions that are quite different from that.
Wow. Farah’s essay is so poorly reasoned that I don’t even know where to start. I’ll limit myself to saying his belief that a lawful right cannot be what Christianity considers a sin is amazing. If that’s the case, then a total Christian theocracy would be the ideal political system.
For the Florida LP version of the Republican position, see my comment
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2011/06/open-thread-for-june-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-441899
Farah sounds conflicted to me. OTOH, the idea of liberty is appealing to him. OTO, his spiritual views and practical assessment of what is possible clash with his innate desire for liberty.
For ex., his belief in what is “sinful” collides with his view of the appropriate role of government. I would encourage Christians to reflect on the idea of “casting the first stone.” I suspect if they really took Jesus’ counsel to heart, their judgmentalism about criminalizing certain “sinful” behaviors would fall away.
Who owns your body ? You do !
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hey, at least the Libs have decent icons. CP, Reform and other ‘anti establishment’ groups fawn over Roman / DC style symbols like the imperial eagle and eagle head ……..
The American Prohibition Party being sponsored by Southern Comfort ?????????
Sounds to me like Mr Farah is a conservative rather than a Libertarian. I find the extrajudicial execution idea especially repugnant.
Farah seems not to recognize the fact that it is government sticking its nose into marriage that is the true blasphemy against the institution.