Common Sense For New Hampshire

Or Don’t We?

A good point I heard made on RedEyeRadio this morning:

So many liberals, when making the case for gay marriage, say that the government shouldn’t legislate morality.  They say that it shouldn’t be in the business of making moral judgements about human relationships.

I agree.  Actually, as I’ve argued here, here and here, the government should have never gotten into the marriage business in the first place.

But these very same people argue that we need laws that force rich people to give their money to poor people.  Well, yes, a moral argument can be made that the rich should help the poor.  But they want laws.  Lots of them.  As a matter of fact, liberals have enacted hundreds of thousands of programs and tax laws that try to decide who deserves what, and from whom do they deserve it.  Maybe millions of laws.  Who knows?  There’s new ones all the time.

Our legal codes are totally steeped in moral judgements made by people in power who believe that their morals are superior to those of the rest of us.  So the left is every bit as guilty as anyone else of wanting the government to impose it’s morality on the populace.

Really, only the libertarians are consistent in this regard (although there is some disagreement between those who support gay marriage and those, like myself, who oppose state licensing of marriages in the first place.)