Property Rights?
In her blog post: Sex Story or Property Rights Story? I Say the Latter, Ms. Ridenour says:
In a piece otherwise largely sympathetic to the owners and patrons of the clubs, the Washington Post never managed to use the phrase "property rights" even once. Yet, all things being equal, isn't it wrong for the government to take private property belonging to one private business and turn it over to the benefit of another?
Government is the representative of the people. That means that the people are taking the private property. Just because a group of people get together and decide they want to take away someone's property, it doesn't mean they have that right. If personal property is not sacrosanct, then anyone can vote to take away anything we own, as long as 51% decide that they want it.
The purpose of government is to protect our rights to property from groups of people who would try to take it away from us. This is not a conservative viewpoint, though, it is rather a radical, liberal (in the classical meaning) viewpoint, and one on which our country was founded.