Libertarianism?

[Final-Fan]

fkusumot said:

Final-Fan said:
It looks to me like Republican America has a hard-on for gay-bashing. And libertarians are helping to stroke it.

That's odd. Why would libertarians be against homosexuality? Does libertarianism have a moral code? And if it does, what is it's philosophical underpinning?

No, you and rocketpig are correct. I said that in in connection with my conversation with DKII and perhaps I overreached.

I was talking about how strange it is to me that the Libertarian movement is so cozy with the Republican Party, and NOT the Democratic Party (AFAIK) because it seems to me that it has equal areas of virulent disagreement and enthusiastic agreement with both (civil liberties/secularism, deregulation/privatization/etc.).

DKII said it was because the Republican desire to undercut civil liberties was not in any danger of succeeding (although in retrospect I'm not entirely sure he was serious), and although the past eight years has mountains of evidence to the contrary the anti-gay initiatives are what first came to mind. [edit: And does the Libertarian Party fight these initiatives as much as it should, or give them a partial pass for the sake of their allies? My earlier post was alleging a certain amount of guilt by association, I suppose.]

Can you answer the question I posed earlier, rocketpig? Why do libertarians seem to be so much cozier with Republicans, with whom they partially agree (market deregulation/privatization/etc.) and partially disagree (civil liberties/secularism), than with Democrats, with whom they also partially agree (civil liberties/secularism) and partially disagree (market regulation/gov't programs/etc.) If anyone here can answer it, you probably can.