POLITICAL: Policies need to make sense. Common sense.

Monday, December 8, 2008

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130326.html

New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Case for Gay Adoption
December 1, 2008, 7:00am

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Laws against gay adoption say, in effect, that a child may not be adopted by gays even when the adoption is in the best interest of the child. But as Steve Chapman writes, the real meaning of family values is that the best interest of the child always comes first.

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Regardless of how you feel about “gays”, I personally PREFER “gay adoption” to “gooferment foster care”. Many of the horror stories come from the gooferment trying to insert itself into every facet of our lives.

First priority, should be two parent heterosexual parents. But clearly, we don’t have enough of those to go around.

“Best interest of the child” would get them permanently placed ASAP!

Once that’s done, we can tackle the other thorny issues. Like abortion, marriage, infidelity, teen sex, and all the other “moral issues”.

BUT first things first.

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LIBERTY: Abortion is a “third rail” issue; laws by the gooferment aren’t the answer!

Monday, September 22, 2008

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2008/tle485-20080921-02.html

Abortion: An Excerpt From Hope
by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

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“Abortion,” Alex said, “will remain legal. But not one red cent of federal tax money will ever be spent on it again, and I will do my level best to persuade the authorities at the state, county, and municipal levels to follow my example. As you know, gentlemen, I can be pretty persuasive.”

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A national disaster. MYOB Let folks find their own way to the truth. Certainly, the gooferment shouldn’t be involved, pay for it, or stick its nose into a very painful personal process. It appears that a “roe v wade” industry has grown up around the government paying for this. That’s a industry that has to go away. Let’s have those, that feel abortion be free to the woman, put up their bucks to pay for it. Let’s have those, that want to save every life, put up their bucks to pay for it.

It’s a moral outrage to rob either side to pay for the programs of the other side.

See that’s what politicians do: They get us arguing among ourselves by framing the question wrong. In each one of these tough issues, we should always be asking: “Why is the gooferment involved in this?”

99% of the time the answer is “It shouldn’t be!”

Argh!

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