The Religious Right

For a long time I have listened to the left, especially the secular left, drone one and on about the religious right, and I've discounted it. Then I ran into one of them. Now, I'm on the right, and I'm religious, but I'm not the religious right.

The thing that seems to distinguish them is an almost complete disconnect from reality.

Here is an example. While discoursing with this person he asserted that allowing gay civil unions, prostitution and abortion would be the end of the free western world. I know, it's nuts, but that's what he's said.

OK, he has a point about abortion, but lets drop it because he only tossed that in as an after thought anyway because he knows I'm a Libertarian and he knows the party platform. He apparently doesn't know I oppose that plank. Point is, this topic can be left out, and it's his strongest one.

Anyway, per my friend the reason gay civil unions and prostitution will bring down the world as we know it is because of "moral anarchy". This is where he really tipped his hand something fierce. In his world view there should, obviously, be a "moral authority", which he believes is the government. It must be this exact world view the left cannot stand. Of course, that is also partly because they don't recognize any moral authority, but that's also beside the point. It is his inability to see the obvious, that he's wrong.

Prostitution poses absolutely zero threat to the civilized world. Nevada is surviving just fine. Prostitution will be going on with or without legal sanction. The government not making prostitution illegal is not the same as the morals of the country going to hell.

Gay civil unions, not even "marriage" mind you, poses absolutely zero threat to the civilized world. Gays wanting to register their relationships with the state to secure inheritance rights, hospital visitation rights and so on detracts nothing from the population at large. Getting the government out of the religious aspect of marriage, and having it focus on the contractual aspect alone, cannot possibly lead to "moral anarchy".

Don't get me wrong, the liberal left is still nuts, especially on issues of economics, but with this sort of focus from the right it's no wonder the two can never make any headway at solutions and they both alienate anyone of reason. Of course, the left has it's hard cases too who are just as blind to reality.

In the end, it's a good thing. It leaves the Libertarian party in that much of a stronger position to help those stuck between these two waring extremes.