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Are people more suspicious than they once were of moralism in public policy ? So  Ross Douthat   argues  in a column about legalized gambling and marijuana. The spread of casinos is driven by states seeking revenue and gaming lobbyists pressing their agenda, whereas weed legalization is driven by activists, "influenced by empathy for the terminally ill, and hastened by public exhaustion with the drug war," Douthat writes. "But both have been made possible by the same trend in attitudes: the rise of a live-and-let-live social libertarianism , the weakening influence of both religious conservatism and liberal communitarianism, the growing suspicion of moralism in public policy."          WE REJECT MORALS THAT FORBID HOMOSEXUALITY It's a plausible theory, but the last line about moralism makes me want to quibble. Maybe people want public policy to reflect their moral judgments as much as ever, but they no longer regard smoki...

The purpose of this article is to examine the compatibility of Christianity with Libertarianism. Now I want to distinguish political libertarianism from theological libertarianism. Theological libertarianism revolves around the debate of human free will in regards to God ’s sovereignty.  Libertarian Free Will argues that man’s will is autonomous and is able to make decisions that are free in an absolute sense (i.e., undetermined). I believe a consistent biblical view of man’s will argues against man having an autonomous free will. This is not to argue that man’s will isn’t free. Man is free to choose anything he desires to choose. The only caveat is that man’s free will choices fall under the umbrella of God’s eternal sovereign decree. Political libertarianism doesn’t regard man in relation to God, but man in relation to man in the realm of society. Libertarianism argues that for human society to thrive personal freedom must be maximized and government control must be minim...