CNN.com – New Florida town would restrict abortion – Mar 2, 2006
Basically, this guy is wanting to create a town that follows a religious doctrine.
This may surprise anyone who knows me and my anti-religious stance, but I say go for it.
If it’s a new town, created by people of a similar philosophy, and no one is required to live there and anyone can leave whenever they wish, have at it.
There’s a quote in the article:
Frances Kissling, president of the liberal Washington-based Catholics for a Free Choice, likened Monaghan’s concept to Islamic fundamentalism.”This is un-American,” Kissling said. “I don’t think in a democratic society you can have a legally organized township that will seek to have any kind of public service whatsoever and try to restrict the constitutional rights of citizens.”
I have to seriously disagree. As a libertarian and in general very supportive of individual rights, this endeavor seeks to epitomize the concept of choice of living how and where you want that’s right for you and your family.
I may not agree with the religion or their philosophies, but the point of America is not to homogenize everyone into a stark, gray melted pot. The founding of America was not meant so that everyone is the same and has to believe and live the same way, even if that way is utter freedom.
The point of our great American experiment is to allow everyone the freedom to live how they wish without government imposing any constraints upon them. The Constitution was designed to give the Federal Government limited powers that was solely needed to keep the states together as a union, and that’s it. All other rights and responsibilities were to fall to the states and the individuals to govern and live how they see fit. (See the 10th Amendment.)
If a community of people want to have their own towna dn live how they prefer, there’s not only nothing unAmerican about it, it’s very PRO American! So long as it’s within a country that remains free for people to be able to do this, that recognizes the role of the government is NOT to GRANT rights but to protect the rights of freedom we’re born with, then things like this is exactly what the founding fathers wanted! The point of the US government was not to make everyone live the same way, but prevent government from making people live the same way while protecting everyone’s freedom to live how they choose.
Good for them, and I hope it succeeds, not just for their sake but the sake of the ideals of America!
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