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No, it is you who apparently have a misunderstanding of the social and economic effects of what you advocate.
Just because we disagree on what those effects would be and how they can be handled with much smaller government doesn't mean I don't understand them.
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Try the economic effects of the deregulation of banks, for instance.
What would be wrong with that? If it meant the end of the current government-backed banking cartel and monetary monopoly. One hundred percent reserve banking. No central bank constantly manipulating the supply of money, credit and interest rates (to the benefit of bankers, the government and the rich and to the detriment of savers, the middle class and the poor).
Much greater overall economic stability. Fewer bubbles. It would be good.
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By the way, do you advocate the freedom for churches to marry gays and lesbian couples?
Yes. Any church can do whatever it wants. How that sits with God will be between them and God of course.
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Do you advocate the freedom for States to determine whether to recognize such marriages?
Yes. However, I really don't think government should be involved with marriage at all. Ultimately this is an issue of private relational arrangements.
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Do you advocate a woman's freedom to choose what to do with her body at least up to the point where science (not religion) recognizes a pregnancy as a child? How about the day after pill, which stops pregnancy before conception?
This one is much trickier as even you should be able to see. This depends greatly on when human life begins and this is a matter that is open for debate. I believe we'd be talking about another human life (living in the womb of a woman.) That being the case there's an obligation to protect that life.
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Do you recognize the right of workers to form unions to make sure no one is taken advantage of?
Yes. However I oppose granting these unions any special privileges under the laws as they have now. If someone wants to join a union and delegate employment negotiation to that union they are free to do so. If an employer does not want to negotiate with any unions, they should be free to not do so.
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If the answer to any of those questions is "no", then you don't advocate "freedom for everyone", so stop pretending. We ALL have different views of what freedom is. It's not a black and white issue.
Perhaps. And yet you tried to make all those questions black and white. All that said, I think it's safe to say that I'm an advocate for much more freedom for many more people in many more circumstances and a respecter of more people's rights of life, liberty and property than you, jimmac, BR, et al are.
