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The Faux Libertarianism Of The Christianists

By The Daily Dish

Apr 20 2009, 2:24 AM ET

A libertarian blogger makes a good point about religious liberty scare-mongering:

The “victimized” Christian bigots are of course not making a thorough, comprehensive (i.e., truly libertarian) demand for full entrepreneurial freedom of contract and its reciprocal “right to refuse service to anyone.” All they want to do is discriminate against gays. Not “anyone and everyone.” Just gays.

Which is precisely why they should not be allowed to do so. As I have blogged previously: Whether or not you approve of bans on private discrimination is not the point we are not debating the creation of Libertopia.

(hat tip: Dave)



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