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certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech
Anything that abridges those rights is anti-American. Morality laws abridge those rights, generally. I have the right to pursue happiness, and, so long as it doesn't harm you, you have no natural right to interfere with that. That means that I'm free to live my life my way, whether you like it or not, so long as it does you no harm. The problem with right-wingers is that they want to tell everyone else how to live. They don't understand that they have no just authority to do so. You don't have to like the way I live. You only have to like the way you live. If I like to smoke pot, have gay sex, drink alcohol, eat transfat, smoke cigarettes, and sleep with women outside of marriage, that's not any of your business. You live your life. I live my life. That's what freedom is. Rightwingers are opposed to that. They want to control other peoples lives -- generally because they can't control their own.
Then you'll be accusing generations of Americans, including its founding generation with being anti-American. You would also be accusing the original progressive liberals (on up) as being anti-American. Individualist precepts had enormous limits in terms of societal regulations, regardless of what conservatives or liberals want to believe.
Sure, we can call one thing or another excessive, but let's not pretend that somehow this is at all alien, or unaccepted in American practice. We do not even have to discuss some of the more heinous examples. We could demonstrate this with rather uncontroversial, forgotten statutes. Let's not contribute more foolishness to the American mythology, shall we?
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