2. Elected officials routinely grandstand on “family values” and in more recent years the “sanctity of marriage.” Entire elections and referendums revolve around these simple-minded phrases.

3. In my own state consensual sex between unmarried adults is illegal, and all forms of sodomy are illegal.

4. Holding someone in physical incarceration for doing something with his body that he and all the involved parties consented to represents in my opinion an extreme form of repression.

Which leads me to my final point:

When the elected officers and appointed agents of a government–which routinely physically incarcerates thousands of its own citizens for victimless crimes–themselves make use of services which the government deems illegal, short of a mass resignation, there is no reason to respect the authority of that government. Some may argue that this standard is too high, but I will note that asking for mercy from a court because the standards of conduct are too high rarely pans out for all but the upper echelons of power.

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