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| Front — Author's
Notes |
| THE BASIC PREMISE |
| An
Overview |
| What
Are Consensual Crimes? |
| Separation of Society and State |
| Personal Morality Versus Governmental Morality |
| Relationship |
| WHY LAWS AGAINST CONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES ARE NOT A GOOD
IDEA |
| It's
Un-American |
| Laws
against Consensual Activities Are Unconstitutional |
| Laws
against Consensual Activities Violate the Separation of Church and State, Threatening the Freedom of and from
Religion |
| Laws
against Consensual Activities Are Opposed to the Principles of Private Property, Free Enterprise, Capitalism, and the
Open Market |
| Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities is Very Expensive |
| Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities Destroys People's Lives |
| Intermission to Part II |
| Consensual Crimes Encourage Real Crimes |
| Consensual Crimes Corrupt Law Enforcement |
| The
Cops Can't Catch 'Em; the Courts Can't Handle 'Em; the Prisons Can't Hold 'Em |
| Consensual Crimes Promote Organized Crime |
| Consensual Crimes Corrupt the Freedom of the Press |
| Laws
against Consensual Activities Teach Irresponsibility |
| Laws
against Consensual Activities Are Too Randomly Enforced to Be Either a Deterrent or Fair |
| Laws
against Consensual Activities Discriminate against the Poor, Minorities, and Women |
| Problems Sometimes Associated with Consensual Activities Cannot Be Solved While They Are
Crimes |
| Laws
against Consensual Activities Create a Society of Fear, Hatred, Bigotry, Oppression, and Conformity; a Culture
Opposed to Personal Expression, Diversity, Freedom, Choice and Growth |
| A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CONSENSUAL CRIMES |
| A
Closer Look at the Consensual Crimes |
| Gambling |
| Drugs |
How and Why Drugs Became Illegal |
Opiates |
Cocaine, Crack, Amphetamines |
Psychedelics |
Marijuana |
| Religious and Psychologically Therapeutic Use of Drugs |
| Regenerative Use of Drugs and Other Unorthodox Medical Practices |
| Prostitution |
| Pornography, Obscenity, Etc. |
| Violations of Marriage; Adultry, Fornication Cohabitation, Bigamy, and Polygamy |
| Homosexuality |
| Unconventional Religious Practices |
| Unpopular Religious Practices |
| Suicide
and Assisted Suicide |
| The
Titanic Laws: Public Drunkenness, Loitering, Vagrancy, Seat Belts, Motorcycle Helmets, Public Nudity,
Transvestism |
SIX CHAPTERS IN SEARCH OF A SHORTER BOOK
| The
Enlightenment or We Were So Much Older Then; We're Younger Than That Now |
| Prohibition: A Lesson in the Futility (and Danger) of Prohibiting |
| What
Jesus and the Bible Really Said about Consensual Crimes |
Old Testament Admonitions |
Jesus of Nazareth and Consensual Crime |
Jesus on Sex and Marriage |
Jesus and the Separation of Church and State |
His Master's Voice? |
Jerry & Pat |
| Traditional Family Values |
| Putting
the "Problem" in Perspective |
| Hypocrites |
WHAT TO DO?
| Education, Not Legislation |
| A Call
to My Media Brethren |
| Protective Technology |
| Hemp
for Victory |
| A
State-By-State Look at Consensual Crime |
| We Must
All Hang Together |
| The
Politics of Change |
| About
the Author |
| Acknowledgments |
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