"Most of you should be familiar by now with the Seven Stages of Liberal Legal Activism:
1. It's a free country, X should not be illegal.
2. The Constitution prohibits X from being made illegal.
3. If the Constitution protects a right to X, how can it be immoral? Anyone who disagrees is a bigot.
4. If X is a Constitutional right, how can we deny it to the poor? Taxpayer money must be given to people to get X.
5. The Constitution requires that taxpayer money be given to people to get X.
6. People who refuse to participate in X are criminals.
7. People who publicly disagree with X are criminals."
Regardless of how you feel about the rest of this article, these 7 stages of activism deserve some consideration.
A key question I sometimes ask pastors is whether they want their religious beliefs expressed as the law of the land. If they do, then I walk on - the same should be applied for some of these social issues.
There is an enormous difference between living in a country where abortion is permitted, and living in a country where discouraging abortion is a criminal act. The same is true of many other issues.
I would much prefer that my government not have an opinion on an issue, than have my government regulate what my opinions should be.
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