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POLL: Poll for Libertarians
 Gays have the right to marry.
 Polygamists have the right to marry.
 Both gays and polygamists have the right to marry.
 Gays do NOT have the right to marry.
 Polygamists do NOT have the right to marry.
 Neither gays nor polygamists have the right to marry.
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
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For the "slippery slope" argument people:

What is the difference between marriage between gays and marriage between a man and a donkey?

A donkey is incapable of expressing consent.

What is the difference between marriage between gays and marriage between an adult and a child?

A child is incapable of expressing consent.

CONSENT is the difference. And that's why the "slippery slope" argument compares apples and oranges.
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In the USA, many people believe in preserving the "traditional definition of marriage".

However, this definition was ALREADY ALTERED when polygamy was made illegal. The traditional Biblical definition of marriage is POLYGAMY.

Can anyone give me rational justification for preventing 2 or more consenting adults from marrying? A libertarian can NOT.
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What does LIBERTY mean?

Liberty means the freedom to do as one wills so long as the action does not breach consent or contract.

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If libertarians are to be expected to handle our own freedom and liberty,

WE MUST

be expected to handle and support the liberties of others--even those who are different from us!

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For the people ASSUMING that I am gay or a polygamist, you're wrong on both counts.

Is it SO HARD TO BELIEVE that a I could support the rights of people who are different than me?!

THAT IS THE FOUNDATION OF LIBERTARIANISM.

Liberty for all. Freedom for all. Personal responsibility for all.

Anything less is ideological BULLSHIT.
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A GOD fearing libertarian can not support gay marriage.
A GOD fearing anything can not support gay marriage.
or anything else gay for that matter.
IT IS AN ABOMINATION.
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I'm not asking for your "opinion" on gay marriage and polygamy. We ALL have our opinions.

I am asking whether you support the liberties of people who are different than you.

Because if you can not support the liberties of people who are different than you, then you are NOT a libertarian.

You're no different than an Islamist.
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A GOD fearing libertarian can not support gay marriage.
A GOD fearing anything can not support gay marriage.
or anything else gay for that matter.
IT IS AN ABOMINATION.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33328238


Sound like an Islamist to me.

A libertarian supports LIBERTY, NOT A SINGLE IDEOLOGY OR RELIGION.
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
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I don't care what they do so long as they do it behind closed doors and don't try shoving their "lifestyle" down my or my kids throats.
Ban guns to "save the children" but killing them in the womb is totally cool......I see; it makes perfect sense now.
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
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I don't care what they do so long as they do it behind closed doors and don't try shoving their "lifestyle" down my or my kids throats.
 Quoting: Hawgzilla


Amen.
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Just in case someone created this poll for research purposes I messed up and selected both do not have the right. I meant to select both do have the right.

My bad please correct in your final numbers

While I do not condone not agree with the topic of this poll personally it is not my right to tell others what to do based off my own personal beliefs. That is why I say they should be allowed to marry
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A GOD fearing libertarian can not support gay marriage.
A GOD fearing anything can not support gay marriage.
or anything else gay for that matter.
IT IS AN ABOMINATION.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33328238


The idea of Abrahamic God is diametrically opposite to liberty. Anyone who calls himself a libertarian and supports laws based on the Bible is a hypocrite.
Banned as usual.

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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


I don't care what they do so long as they do it behind closed doors and don't try shoving their "lifestyle" down my or my kids throats.
 Quoting: Hawgzilla


I don't care what people do in their bedrooms but when you go out to the street you behave civilly. If your sexual lifestyle includes being a pervert that's your problem, but being a pervert out in public is not acceptable, whether you're hetero or homo (and that goes for the self proclaimed sluts out there too). Now that's libertarianism, do whatever you want as long as it's consensual and it doesn't fuck with anyone else's integrity.
Banned as usual.

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Please get your poll questions on point for the subject.

The whole issue is about money by way of "benefits" and other socially-structured beneficial monetary issues.

Marriages are for the purpose of securing the welfare of children produced by the marriage.

Our society does not need to be funding companionship for comfort, sex or any other purpose. Social funding of companionship is all that gay marriage is about.
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no one should have the right to marry. how fuckin stoopid are you to marry?!
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The only benefit I see of keeping a marriage between two people is how messy divorce, child custody, alimony, could get if one person could marry many people. And how many spouses would be covered under group insurance?
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Please get your poll questions on point for the subject.

The whole issue is about money by way of "benefits" and other socially-structured beneficial monetary issues.

Marriages are for the purpose of securing the welfare of children produced by the marriage.

Our society does not need to be funding companionship for comfort, sex or any other purpose. Social funding of companionship is all that gay marriage is about.
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Libertarians don't believe in "benefits" in the first place, if someone wishes to share their assets with whoever they coexist that is their issue and they should have a legal way to do it if they so wish. Anything involving other people's money is out of the question in a libertarian paradigm.
Banned as usual.

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Please get your poll questions on point for the subject.

The whole issue is about money by way of "benefits" and other socially-structured beneficial monetary issues.

Marriages are for the purpose of securing the welfare of children produced by the marriage.

Our society does not need to be funding companionship for comfort, sex or any other purpose. Social funding of companionship is all that gay marriage is about.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33354212


Libertarians don't believe in "benefits" in the first place, if someone wishes to share their assets with whoever they coexist that is their issue and they should have a legal way to do it if they so wish. Anything involving other people's money is out of the question in a libertarian paradigm.
 Quoting: Manu-Koelbren


^^^THIS^^^

Tying legal obligations and benefits to a romantic union is NOT a libertarian concept!
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
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Nowhere on this poll is the true Libertarian answer:

Marriage is a private religious ceremony and institution, therefore the state has no authority to dictate anything to do with marriage, as set forth in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights...
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A message to the LINOs (Libertarians In Name Only):

Being a libertarian is easy when you're advocating for your own rights and liberties.

Being a libertarian is hard when you're advocating for the rights and liberties of others.

But a libertarian KNOWS: A threat to ANYONE'S liberty is a threat to YOUR OWN.

God bless America and the Liberty that we were founded upon.
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
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Nowhere on this poll is the true Libertarian answer:

Marriage is a private religious ceremony and institution, therefore the state has no authority to dictate anything to do with marriage, as set forth in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights...
 Quoting: UnmannedAerialPilot


Ding ding ding.

You are correct sir.

But that means that consenting adults of all kinds have the RIGHT to marry.

This poll implies nothing about legal obligations or benefits.
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


Nowhere on this poll is the true Libertarian answer:

Marriage is a private religious ceremony and institution, therefore the state has no authority to dictate anything to do with marriage, as set forth in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights...
 Quoting: UnmannedAerialPilot


Ding ding ding.

You are correct sir.

But that means that consenting adults of all kinds have the RIGHT to marry.

This poll implies nothing about legal obligations or benefits.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


What about civil marriage? Marriage is not strictly a religious institution, atheists do marry also.
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A GOD fearing libertarian can not support gay marriage.
A GOD fearing anything can not support gay marriage.
or anything else gay for that matter.
IT IS AN ABOMINATION.
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So you can't be a libertarian.

It's that simple.

You are either for freedom of choice (and values) or you are for forcing your values on others.

If you are the latter then you are an idiot if you call yourself a "libertarian" because you fundamentally don't comprehend what the term means.
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I am personally against the whole gay rights thing because I think it's another NWO sham, but as a libertarian I can't find any logical argument to prohibit gays from having the same inheritance rights as heterosexuals. Most of the arguments against it seem to come from the religious groups and religion is nonsense so it doesn't apply.
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OP ..

as a 'simultaneous final' you would not be asking/starting threads like this.

if you think your a final incarnation as per 'the author/M5' you are greatly greatly foolish
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


Nowhere on this poll is the true Libertarian answer:

Marriage is a private religious ceremony and institution, therefore the state has no authority to dictate anything to do with marriage, as set forth in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights...
 Quoting: UnmannedAerialPilot


Ding ding ding.

You are correct sir.

But that means that consenting adults of all kinds have the RIGHT to marry.

This poll implies nothing about legal obligations or benefits.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


What about civil marriage? Marriage is not strictly a religious institution, atheists do marry also.
 Quoting: Manu-Koelbren


Indeed you are correct sir!

Tying legal obligations and benefits to a romantic union is NOT a tenet of libertarian thought.

No matter the motivation for the romantic union (or unions), they are an entitlement of liberty so long as they do not breach consent of one or more parties.
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


Nowhere on this poll is the true Libertarian answer:

Marriage is a private religious ceremony and institution, therefore the state has no authority to dictate anything to do with marriage, as set forth in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights...
 Quoting: UnmannedAerialPilot


Ding ding ding.

You are correct sir.

But that means that consenting adults of all kinds have the RIGHT to marry.

This poll implies nothing about legal obligations or benefits.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


It is God that gives people the right to marriage, not governments. The God of the Bible sets forth marriage as one man and one woman becoming one flesh. The same God condemns homosexuality, bestiality, pedophilia, etc. When you argue that you have rights granted from God, that necessitates that you play by God's rules in order to obtain those rights.

A marriage between two men, a man and an animal, an adult and a child, etc., are not marriages at all, they are abomination, and are therefore null and void in God's eyes. Actually anything outside of God's law is abomination, and that includes drunkenness, fornication, lust, feminism, etc., which are all legal in our country.

As a free society however, we are bound by the Constitution to allow all men everywhere the freedom to choose their own lifestyles (render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's). Therefore, as we all must give an account for our lives before God, both in this life and at the judgment, it is not within our authority to limit another persons pursuit of happiness, so long as they do not bring harm to ourselves or our families, or infringe upon others' rights.

In this nation we do not live under the Levitical Law, nor would I want to. I know I would not have lived past age 16. With that being said though, there is a moral absolute and it is Thus Saith the LORD. God condemns homosexuality, as does nature, and therefore I am personally and morally opposed to the practice of homosexuality as a whole, not just the marriage part of it. But, just because I or anyone else disagrees with something, doesn't mean it should be made illegal.

The Constitution, which I have sworn before God to uphold, grants all other American citizen the same rights as I have, and therefore I say leave this issue up to the States. The 10th Amendment makes it clear; the federal government has no place in dictating marriage, drug laws, alcohol laws, etc. Abortion is different, I would say, because the first right we all have is the right to LIFE, but that is a completely different topic.

So to answer your question in a long-winded and rambling sort of way, yes everyone should have the right to marriage in this country, because it is a religious institution, not a governmental one. If marriage has been relegated to a state-issue, then let the States vote and decide for themselves, that way if you disagree with the majority of people in your State, you have the ability to move to where your views are the majority.
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as a 'simultaneous final' you would not be asking/starting threads like this.

if you think your a final incarnation as per 'the author/M5' you are greatly greatly foolish
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As a libertarian, I can see no wrong in ANYTHING that does not:

1. Breach the consent of another adult.

2. Breach a contract made of sound mind.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


Nowhere on this poll is the true Libertarian answer:

Marriage is a private religious ceremony and institution, therefore the state has no authority to dictate anything to do with marriage, as set forth in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights...
 Quoting: UnmannedAerialPilot


Ding ding ding.

You are correct sir.

But that means that consenting adults of all kinds have the RIGHT to marry.

This poll implies nothing about legal obligations or benefits.
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


It is God that gives people the right to marriage, not governments. The God of the Bible sets forth marriage as one man and one woman becoming one flesh. The same God condemns homosexuality, bestiality, pedophilia, etc. When you argue that you have rights granted from God, that necessitates that you play by God's rules in order to obtain those rights.

A marriage between two men, a man and an animal, an adult and a child, etc., are not marriages at all, they are abomination, and are therefore null and void in God's eyes. Actually anything outside of God's law is abomination, and that includes drunkenness, fornication, lust, feminism, etc., which are all legal in our country.

As a free society however, we are bound by the Constitution to allow all men everywhere the freedom to choose their own lifestyles (render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's). Therefore, as we all must give an account for our lives before God, both in this life and at the judgment, it is not within our authority to limit another persons pursuit of happiness, so long as they do not bring harm to ourselves or our families, or infringe upon others' rights.

In this nation we do not live under the Levitical Law, nor would I want to. I know I would not have lived past age 16. With that being said though, there is a moral absolute and it is Thus Saith the LORD. God condemns homosexuality, as does nature, and therefore I am personally and morally opposed to the practice of homosexuality as a whole, not just the marriage part of it. But, just because I or anyone else disagrees with something, doesn't mean it should be made illegal.

The Constitution, which I have sworn before God to uphold, grants all other American citizen the same rights as I have, and therefore I say leave this issue up to the States. The 10th Amendment makes it clear; the federal government has no place in dictating marriage, drug laws, alcohol laws, etc. Abortion is different, I would say, because the first right we all have is the right to LIFE, but that is a completely different topic.

So to answer your question in a long-winded and rambling sort of way, yes everyone should have the right to marriage in this country, because it is a religious institution, not a governmental one. If marriage has been relegated to a state-issue, then let the States vote and decide for themselves, that way if you disagree with the majority of people in your State, you have the ability to move to where your views are the majority.
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Someone didn't read the thread.
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OP ..

as a 'simultaneous final' you would not be asking/starting threads like this.

if you think your a final incarnation as per 'the author/M5' you are greatly greatly foolish
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If you feel that you have the authority to make judgements of my experience here in this world, then you fundamentally misunderstand the Matrix material. ZAP!
 Quoting: simultaneous_final


then I guess it looks like we both get 'zapped' then. because you are correct about what I said but at the same time, I am probably 99.8% correct still





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