What Everyone Missed About the NC Bathroom Law
Apr 11, 2016 20:00:28 GMT -8
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Post by Origanalist on Apr 11, 2016 20:00:28 GMT -8
What Everyone Missed About the NC Bathroom Law (Including Me!)
Posted on April 11, 2016
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Since the first minute I heard of Georgia’s religious-freedom bill, I figured it was a trap. Get everyone riled up about another southern state showing its prejudice and get the national populace, or maybe even the federal government, to make sure that no one anywhere is permitted to enact anything so barbaric. As DOMA clearly demonstrated, if you want to cram down your social legislation on subsidiary governments, as the federal Defense of Marriage Act did to states, get ready to for an equal and opposite federal reaction like the Supreme Court ruling that states could not deny gay marriage.
The prevailing paradigm at the top is secular humanism and if there’s going to be lasting social legislation, that will be its endpoint no matter how it gets started. As a libertarian, I don’t want social legislation of either variety, and in a libertarian society these issues wouldn’t even arise.
Pure libertarian principles would solve these problems before they even got started…don’t have federal marriage benefits (which was the justification for both DOMA and its demise); don’t have government-bestowed marriage privileges; don’t have government licensing of marriages; don’t let government tell you what you can or can’t do on your own property or in your own church or in your own club or any other private institution; don’t let government spread across institutions so that vital centers like airports and universities are public domains; don’t let government legislate with whom you can transact or not transact nor what you may buy and sell; and always employ the principle of subsidiarity, which demands that the smallest social unit capable of handling a problem handle the problem so at least if the government oversteps these bounds you can step in–or step out.
The principle of subsidiarity is the essence of federalism and the American Experiment: first empower the self, then the family, then the homeowners’ association, town, city, county, state and as a last resort, the federal government–a last resort clearly defined by the 18 enumerated powers in the Constitution. That’s where North Carolina’s law loses me…
continued.. themonicaperezshow.com/2016/04/11/what-everyone-missed-about-the-nc-bathroom-law-including-me/
Posted on April 11, 2016
themonicaperezshow.com/2016/04/11/what-everyone-missed-about-the-nc-bathroom-law-including-me/
Since the first minute I heard of Georgia’s religious-freedom bill, I figured it was a trap. Get everyone riled up about another southern state showing its prejudice and get the national populace, or maybe even the federal government, to make sure that no one anywhere is permitted to enact anything so barbaric. As DOMA clearly demonstrated, if you want to cram down your social legislation on subsidiary governments, as the federal Defense of Marriage Act did to states, get ready to for an equal and opposite federal reaction like the Supreme Court ruling that states could not deny gay marriage.
The prevailing paradigm at the top is secular humanism and if there’s going to be lasting social legislation, that will be its endpoint no matter how it gets started. As a libertarian, I don’t want social legislation of either variety, and in a libertarian society these issues wouldn’t even arise.
Pure libertarian principles would solve these problems before they even got started…don’t have federal marriage benefits (which was the justification for both DOMA and its demise); don’t have government-bestowed marriage privileges; don’t have government licensing of marriages; don’t let government tell you what you can or can’t do on your own property or in your own church or in your own club or any other private institution; don’t let government spread across institutions so that vital centers like airports and universities are public domains; don’t let government legislate with whom you can transact or not transact nor what you may buy and sell; and always employ the principle of subsidiarity, which demands that the smallest social unit capable of handling a problem handle the problem so at least if the government oversteps these bounds you can step in–or step out.
The principle of subsidiarity is the essence of federalism and the American Experiment: first empower the self, then the family, then the homeowners’ association, town, city, county, state and as a last resort, the federal government–a last resort clearly defined by the 18 enumerated powers in the Constitution. That’s where North Carolina’s law loses me…
continued.. themonicaperezshow.com/2016/04/11/what-everyone-missed-about-the-nc-bathroom-law-including-me/
