Rush to misinformation

Normally, I’d rather rip my car’s stereo system, speakers included, out
of the dashboard than listen to Rush Limbaugh. But this afternoon, I was
inside someone else’s auto so I didn’t have the right to even change the
channel, much less rip out the radio. That’s why I heard Limbaugh spread
this intentionally misleading piece of propaganda concerning libertarians.

Libertarians, he said, are happy the Supreme Court overturned Texas’
sodomy laws because they have no concern about the constitution says.
Conservatives, unlike libertarians, want the courts to base their
decisions only the Constitution.

What a pile of rubbish. Limbaugh noted that every one of the 13 original
states made sodomy illegal at the time of the ratification of the
Constitution.

Anyone slightly familiar with the Libertarian Party platform or
libertarian doctrine recognized this as a obvious lie. Libertarians
support the Constitution, and the constitution includes the 14th
Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law for everyone.

By the way, Rush, the 14th Amendment didn’t exist when the Constitution
was ratified, so it doesn’t matter that they all had anti-sodomy laws at
the time.

Doing away with anti-sodomy laws passes Constitutional must AND makes
libertarians happy. Unlike the recent Supreme Court decision upholding
“diversity” programs that give minority applicants preference in college
applications, this decision does not ignore the 14th Amendment in order
to accomplish a laudible goal. No one’s rights are being diminsihed
exept a state’s right to interfere in private, victimless behavior.

Why does Rush want his listeners to get the wrong idea about
libertarians? Because libertarian philosophy makes more sense than does
conservatism, which claims the government has no right to raise taxes or
mandate diversity programs, yet HAS the right to tell people what to do
in their bedrooms and how to medicate themselves. For the same reasons,
Republicans want to kick republicans off the ballots. A great many
people who vote Republican because they cannot stand the Democrats would
vote for the Libertarians if they thought the Libertarian had a chance
of winning. There are even a few people who hold their nose and vote
Democratic because they cannot abide voting for Bible-thumping,
gay-bashing GOPers.

*UPDATE:* Justin Dustin, a conservative, agrees with me

on how the 14th Amendment applies to homosexuals.