"Government has no place in the bedrooms of the Nation"

Unless your one of them

Well I guess the definition of "them" as I use it here has changed, it used to include homosexuals, and before that there was the moral outrage of mixed marriage, and before that it was between religions and sects of religions...

Too bad no high-minded modern politician has ever really meant to abide by the ideals of freedom and liberty.

Do I support Polygamy? Polyandry? Polygyny? No, not explicitly. What I do support unequivocally is the right for every man woman and child to live their lives as they see fit, in complete liberty.

Let me spell this out. As long as you live your life without initiating force on any other human being I don't care what you do.

For the hard of thinking out there that means that in so far as the people involved in polygamy are all consenting adults in the maturity of their faculties it's none of our business as individuals or as a society what they do.

We are free to judge and even to condemn the residents of Bountiful as individuals, but to use the states monopoly of force against them is obscene, any prohibition on the private affairs of individuals is.

Part 2: The caring part of I don’t care.

We’ve established that I don’t care, and as a result more than one of you probably believe that I have got to be the most self-centered, self-serving, self-absorbed, arrogant, ignorant bastard on the face of the planet.

But I’m not.

My not caring is not selfish protectionism but an expression my respect for the personal liberty of every person on this planet.

For example; If I tell you that I don’t care if you become a heroin addict that is just me advocating liberty. It is me acknowledging your personal freedom to make the choice to imbibe of the drug or not as you see fit. It also places responsibility for the consequences of that action squarely at your feet.

It does not mean that I approve or that I would not criticize, cajole or harass you for your addiction though. Nor necessarily does it mean that I would abandon you to fight any addiction alone because I'm selfish. My not caring if you become an addict certainly does not mean however, that I would support or facilitate your habit in any way.

My not caring places the responsibility for caring for your actions in your hands. It simultaneously prevents me from falsely accepting responsibility and acting as a moral crutch for you or shouldering a measure of your guilt and thereby delaying your acceptance of responsibility and your recovery. It also frees me to act in the most selfless and caring manner to help you, as any compassionate person would.

That is how much I don't care.

Part I: Truth be told, I really don’t care.

Yep, that’s a fact. I don’t care what you do, when, how, where, why or with whom, just so long as you don’t hurt anyone else.

I don’t care if you want to live in a polygamous relationship

I don’t care if you want to drink to excess, smoke pot, inject heroin or snort cocaine.

I don’t care if you and your homosexual or lesbian partner “marry".

Read my lips… I don’t Care!

What I cannot tolerate however, is the rejection of personal responsibility for any of these choices or my being compelled by an overbearing busybody government to support them.

If you snort coke and kill someone while in a drug induced rage then you should be punished to the fullest extent of the law for the crime of murder. The coke may be why you did it but it was you, and you alone that committed the crime.

If you run down a teenager in your Caddy because you’ve had one too many highballs at the office Christmas party then you, not the company or the bartender should be charged with vehicular manslaughter and go to jail for a very, very long time.

If you have 100 spouses, you and they must be willing and able to sort out the legal ramifications of custody, support and alimony should the whole thing go down the toilet.

So whatever decision you make, however you decide to live your life and however those decisions impact you, I would remind you of one simple fact.

I don’t care.