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Hurting the Ones You (Ought to) Love

By Patrick Hynes on 6.27.06 @ 12:08AM

Why do some libertarians want a war with the Christian Right?

New York Post columnist Ryan Sager is one of the sharpest young minds (with one of the sharpest pens) in the punditocracy. He is also a genuine libertarian who is suspicious of virtually every action take by the government, federal, state, and local.

p>Sager is also -- perhaps especially -- distrustful of the Christian Right. He synopsizes his thoughtful piece in the current issue of the Atlantic , titled "Purple Mountains," thus : br> /p>

In the piece, I look at whether the GOP's balance between South and West is going off kilter. I argue that, yes, the GOP is tilting too far South, leaving open the way toward a Democratic revival in the interior West.

br> But that's not really what the article is about. The Interior West and the South are merely geographic proxies in the conflict Sager is manifestly more interested in: the one between anti-government libertarians and Christian conservatives. This is the subject of Sager's forthcoming book

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Patrick Hynes is an account executive with the consulting firm Marsh Copsey + Scott and the proprietor of the websites www.passionforfairness.com and www.crushkerry.com.