Eric Schansberg writes about Colorado’s Amendment 48:

73% of (voting) Colorodans reject basic science

Or perhaps they don’t want to put it into their Constitution (a plausible but relatively rare argument)?

In any case, 73% of voters rejected Colorado’s “Amendment 48”:

This measure would amend the state constitution to define the term “person” to include “any human being from the moment of fertilization.” This definition would be applied to all aspects of the state constitution, including the provisions that ensure that no person has his or her life, liberty, or property taken away without due process of law. Thus, the measure would essentially have the effect of banning abortion.

But he’s missed the point. This is the basic reason why we cannot rely on politics, on government, to tell us right from wrong.

Yes, this may be one case in which we as libertarians can in good conscience see a proper role for government. And we can say that the government is being unjust to those unborn children. And we can lobby for the rights of the unborn. And we can call the government unjust, and we would be right.

But governments have always been unjust, at least in part. And government will always be unjust. That shouldn’t stop us from doing the right thing. In other words, we don’t need the government to wipe out the injustice in our little corner of the world, as long as we live in a free country. Because the government does not define morality for us. God does.

And that’s the difference between God and government.

-TimK