FMA AND LIBERTARIANISM: Josh Claybourn
 
...The 600 pound gorilla in the whole discussion is one's view of government. There isn't a lot of writing that I'm aware of explaining or defending "Christian libertarianism," but it's more prevalent than you probably realize. At the root of Christian libertarianism is the biblical conviction that God grants men the freedom (never the permission) to sin. It allows Christians to transform the culture through the church and the family. This transformation is no business of the state's. The early Christian church, and America's Founders, saw this and kept the church and state in two different spheres, permitting the church to influence the populace (and the state) freely. The church best flourishes in that sort of environment. The virtuous life cannot be brought about by government.
The state should not be called upon to bring about the virtuous life. The price is subservience to the state.
 
Many will view this as a cop-out or shirking from God's wishes, but I am a libertarian precisely because I wish to protect traditional values and culture from the state. San Fransisco's mayor Gavin Newsom is a wonderful example of the problems that can befall a church that so closely ties its precepts to a secular state. It's time for the church to consider its own marriages apart from a secular state.
 
more, plus a big ol' comments-box discussion
 
Ramesh Ponnuru responds here, basically asking, Okay, so why have marriage licenses at all?
 
Josh replies here but doesn't, IMO (this is Eve speaking), really answer Ramesh.

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