A Nation of “Pot-Smoking Fornicators” Cannot Have Constitutional Liberty
[...] If you want a nation of pot-smoking fornicators to be free, you want something that is not going to happen.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2023, from Mere Christendom, cited to the source.
Civic liberty is an impossibility for a people who are enslaved to their lusts. For such a people, constitutional liberties are nothing but paper liberties—the kind of thin surety that tends to satisfy slaves who need to be flattered by their masters. [...] If you want a nation of pot-smoking fornicators to be free, you want something that is not going to happen.
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