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Entry: The Relativist Roots of Libertarianism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_relativist_roots_of_libertarianism#25569 Post contents: Perhaps the only "fusionism" (a synthesis of libertarians and traditional conservatives) which ever had a chance was that envisaged by the Founders: to permit states and communities to decide to allow or disallow school prayer and other issues of a specific moral nature. But that was the late 18th c, when America still had a homogeneously Christian population. This level of local state autonomy doesn't go far enough for the most federalizing Religious rightists, and it goes too far for the most atomistic libertarians today. And surprise, only one GOP candidate defended this traditional view recently-RP. Sent at: 2008 08 08