No, govermnent shouldn't have the right to prevent adults from harming themselves. Government is necessary to solve conflicts between people but not to tell people how to live.
Besides, every form of drug prohibition creates a black market and a crime problem that is bigger than the problems caused by the drug itself.
This is a ridiculous strawman resolve.
Most conservatives don't want to ban gay sex or strauight oral or anal sex or sex before marriage. They may find it immoral but they don't want to ban it.
There are almost no conservatives who want to ban alternative religions.
Keeping the spankinbg of children legal isn't nanny-statish at all - parents can decide themselves if they want to spank their children or not.
Having English as official language doesn't have anything to do with the nanny state.
Not allowing gay marriage doesn't have anything to do with teh nanny state either.
You can do better than that, Hadrian.
When the military was desegregated there were probably still a lot of people in the armed forces who would have preferred a segregated military. There were a lpot of people in the armed forces who were used to segregation at home. THere were maybe some who felt uncomfortable showering with blacks. Desegregation of the minds took longer than institutional desegregation. If the US government had waited with desegregation until the last person who felt uncomfortable in an integrated military had left the US military would still be segregated.
Did it hurt the US armed forces? No. (or do you seriously claimed the tie in Korea and teh defeat in Vietnam were due to integration?)
And the US shouldn't wait with repealing "Don't as don't tell" until homphobia has disappeared. Sometimes the government has to lead social change ratehr than reacting to it. Yes, some servicemen and -women may feel uncomfortable in some situations because of it. They are probably the ones who feel uncomfortable in teh presence of homosexuals anyway. But if you feel uncomfortable in teh presence of some of your fellow countrymen or -women just because of their race or tehir sexualorientation maybe soldier isn't the right job for you. As soldier you have to be able to cooperate with poeple from different social backgrounds, from different parts of teh country, with a different skin color, people who are different in mahny ways but in the same uniform, serving the same country. An effective military should integrtae a nation, rather than dividing it.
Your military is defending the right to be gay, and many other rights, against people people, who want to turn the whole world into an Islamic dictatorship. There is no reason why gays shouldn't take part in this struggle.
