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I am delighted to see two esteemed scholars from the libertarian camp endorse the idea of simply privatizing marriage. Arthur Silber presents a logically unassailable argument for marriage privatization, and Reason magazine cited David Boaz' similar idea.

Catching up with Arthur Silber, I found myself also drawn to a most unpleasant analysis of the sodomy law issue, by a guy who thinks that the government ought to persecute and lock up homosexuals for -- get this -- being too "pagan":

Although sodomy laws often did apply to members of both sexes and to married couples, the Christian religion has always stigmatized homosexuality—not just behavior but the inclination—as evil and unnatural. It is true that even in the most rigorous Christian societies, a distinction can be (and should be) drawn between sin and crime. Pride, envy, and disloyalty may be more sinful than adultery and homicide, but the former are typically ignored, while the latter are punished severely, often capitally. Most Christian societies, however, have punished notorious cases of homosexuality with rigor, partly out of a desire to extirpate a vice so closely connected with paganism and partly in order to discourage homosexuals from recruiting young men and destroying, so it is believed, their chances of salvation.

States rights my ass! This guy is talking -- right here in modern enlightened America -- about the right of "Christians" to persecute "pagans!"

Few things have so raised my Classical hackles as this nonsense (or given me a better reason to have taken up blogging). Why, the guy wants to rid us of dangerous Renaissance and Enlightenment thinking, and he says so. All that he loves was "undermined by political dreamers during the Renaissance and Enlightenment."

Christians don’t have the time and resources to police the neopagans. We can, however, take care of our own business. This means restoring marriage to its proper place and stigmatizing divorce, adultery, and fornication as anti-Christian practices we shall not tolerate in our communities. If we belong to a church that condemns homosexuality, we can make sure that there are no openly “gay” pastors, including gay pastors who claim to be celibate. If you belong to a tolerant denomination, you can find another church. Today.

All hail the Bigot God of Intolerance?

How dare this guy speak in the name of all Christians, anyway? And in the name of a reform rabbi who preached tolerance? I am beginning to wonder, if the guy they claim to follow really did return to earth, whether he wouldn't be put to death by all these worshipers of the Bigot God of September 11.

(Well, shouldn't it be up to the states to punish such things as healing on the Sabbath, wandering or strolling from place to place without apparent business, or aiding and abetting accused prostitutes?)

posted by Eric on 07.06.03 at 03:46 PM





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