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That's a tougher thing to address. On one hand, I'd consider myself Christian nationalist to SOME degree (not 100%): I would love to see America become a nation led by Christian values and morals as it once was. On the other hand, I also recognize that our enemy is clever and will inevitably use against us whatever provisions we present, especially if an opposition power gains political ground. Prime proof of this is "separation of church and state" which, initially, was designed to protect the church so that the state couldn't dictate its affairs, but has now been misused to keep God out of State entirely. On the another hand, I'm a traditionalist and a constitutionalist; I don't call myself libertarian (anymore), not even conservative. I am simply a Christian traditionalist & constitutionalist who wants to start a family and live the American Dream. I do believe in freedom as our Constitution protects, but I also believe in laws that keep civilization civil. I believe there's a way to both preserve constitutional freedoms and protect against state tyranny, while also fighting moral degradation. People often say "you can't legislate morality" and I agree to some degree, but that argument would be null and void the moment we recognize that we actually do legislate morality on the regular. You can't murder someone without legal consequences. Why? It's not just the fact that murder eliminates a member of society, there's a moral reason: it's just flat-out wrong to take another's life except in self-defense (death for justice is meant to be dealt by the Magistrate). Let's talk about another moral legislation: protection of children, namely in terms of sexuality. There's the "MAP" movement of despicable degenerates trying to argue that consensual intimacy with a child should not be legally prosecuted. Their argument ultimately falls apart to show that they are "men without chests", as CS Lewis puts it. They don't argue from a moral perspective, but rather, they argue from law, from emotion and from very shoddy logic. Meanwhile, anyone with a sane mind and a conscience that hasn't been 100% destroyed by hell, will all say the same thing: it is completely and utterly evil to desecrate the innocence of children. That is objectively a moral argument. We protect our children, we do not exploit them. Therefore, we do legislate morality in various ways. If we legislate morality in obvious cases, then the "you can't legislate morality" argument doesn't hold up when used against certain subjects. For example, I am a firm believer that porn needs to be outlawed: ban the production, prosecute the producers and willing actors, liberate the trafficking victims (of which there are many) and focus on providing help to all addicts who want to be freed from their addiction. I'm not talking about ID verification, I'm talking about getting rid of the industry entirely. The "gooners" would argue "you can't legislate morality!" but as I mentioned above, that argument wouldn't hold up for multiple reasons. Even WITHOUT a moral argument, there are factual arguments to be made against it: many actors/actresses are trafficked or pressured into taking part (including underage individuals in some cases), consumption of porn literally rots the brain and there's also the fact that major sites were exposed for pushing gay and trans porn on straight men over time. Add to that the morality argument and it's a done deal: porn SHOULD be outlawed... yet, "you can't legislate morality", according to the men without chests. All of that was a really roundabout way to say that it's a complicated issue that needs to be approached carefully. Ideally, we should aim for creating a future (through our children and descendants) where we get back to being a society of integrity, with civilians who don't WANT to live lives of immorality and degeneracy. I don't like the idea of getting into the legal department because it could create bigger problems; at the same time, I do think there's a way we can balance relatively light-handed legal provisions while also cultivating a society over the next few generations which will get back to the genuine desire to pursue lives of integrity, honor and righteousness. Hopefully that didn't come across as an overly verbose rant but like I said, it's complicated!