I grew up in México. This anti-religious war actually happened, and I know tthis not because of my education there, but because older people who had actually witnessed some of the gevernment's actions or who had actually participated in the "cristiada" told me about it. I hope you're just parodying a thoughtless leftist and are not actually one. And I say "thoughtless leftist" because no thinking person with a heart would hear about such atrocities and continue to dismiss them or diminish them, just because they contradict his or her ideology.

Keynes actually said that, "in the long run we're all dead." But that was close enough, and he surely meant it that way. Austrian Economists (on the other hand) are concerned about the long run. All of us should be concerned about the long run, if we care about our children at all.

Marxixm and Libertarianism couldn't be further apart!

Be aware that you may be projecting. Why are you obsessed with denying them their rights? Why do you feel that your marriage is threatened? How do their rights threaten your in any way?

"All evil is an attempt to eliminate evil." (James Carse) You are calling it evil, therefore you want to eliminate it. Morality and goodness should be an individual's choice based on his/her beliefs. You cannot judge the actions of others (unless they are obviously harming somebody else) as evil solely because those actions disagree with your beliefs! In this, both the extreme right and left agree!!! Both want to supress what individuals want to do in the name of what they believe is right. They (in other words) want to impose their will on others!

I agree with the conservatives that the institution of marriage is VERY IMPORTANT!!!! It is the foundation of our society. However, I also believe that the institution of marriage between a man and a woman is in NO WAY threatened by allowing Gays to pursue their own happiness and call their relationships whatever they want to call them.

Mr. Adams is a smart man. His views are usually well thought out and compellingly written. In this column, he sums up both Liberal and Conservative views thus: "According to liberals, rights are not given to individuals by God. They are given to groups by government." My own Libertarian view is that rights are neither given by God to individuals nor are they the result of some consensus reached by "society" as the Progressives seem to believe. I believe that rights are inherent in the individual (regardless of whether those rights come from God or not), with the caveat that other individuals (in their own self interest) must recognize them as such. Regarding same-sex marriage, I'm with D. Cheney: "Freedom means freedom for everyone."

A totalitarian government using this sort of pseudo-science would feel justified in killing millions of people for holding views contrary to the prevailing vision and not responding to re-education. Hitler's views were in part "informed" by Eugenics, a pseudo-science once popular with American Progressives. This is simply an outrage, pure garbage!

"If the goal is to make ourselves feel good, this law is a success. It's a failure only if the point is to actually do good." That statement applies to many of Obama's policies as well. Corruption in México is part of the culture, but (of course) greasing of the wheels occurs here in a more subtle, but no less effective, form. It's anti-business (anti-free markets) regulations that encourage corruption. Thomas Sowell, referring to this kind of thing (paraphrasin) once said that the more laws in the books the more corruption is encouraged (or something to that effect).

I hope Ron Paul lends Romney his Austrian Economics' books.