From here:

Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader — including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing — his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.

“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. “I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to, but it’s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.”

This libertarian position – one I have a passing sympathy for – reminds me of William F Buckley’s staunch support for legalising all drugs on the grounds that it isn’t the government’s job to limit people’s freedom to choose their agent of stupefaction – lethal or not.

The problem is, if government does not make legislation that limits freedom in order to encourage a functioning society, if its legislation is not grounded in a moral framework,  then it should also not legislate against things like gay “marriage”, polygamy, polyamory, bestiality and bawdy houses.

I wonder if Pat Robertson would go along with that?