Crime Versus Morality

As a Christian, there is a certain moral code I follow.  It really boils down to two general commandments: Love God with all my heart, mind, and soul, and love my neighbor (as in everyone else) as myself.  What this means is that no matter what culture I live in, I must love God first and foremost and love others.  While this is pretty broad and general, God usually gives us a discerning heart as to what is right and what is wrong.  A good guideline can be found in the book of Acts when the Apostles wrote a letter to the Gentiles about what they should do.
As a libertarian, I believe that government should be limited as much as possible.  I wish I could be an anarcho-capitalist, however I believe that because of the fallen nature of man, there will be a need for some level of order and justice administered by some kind of central authority.  Even when Israel was first established following the death of Moses, they had judges and some form of due process laid out.  It wasn’t a completely anarchist society.
One of the chief conflicts I have with conservatives is the role of government when it comes to morality.  Now, many of us agree that in the United States, crime should primarily be dealt with at the local and state level (although there are always exceptions here), but I often find that tired old argument about legislating morality from both sides.
On the libertarian side, the argument is that you cannot legislate morality because one person’s moral worldview will be different from another’s.  The conservative response is that laws against murder is a fundamental moral law.  Unfortunately, both argument are fallacious and really quite dumb.  The problem is that both groups don’t realize they are speaking two entirely different languages.
For the conservative, they have a set of moral values and they firmly believe that the government is the institution to impose them.  This is very much like the liberals, although the liberals tend to equate social justice with morality rather than the classic Judeo-Christian ethic that conservatives apply.
Libertarians, on the other hand, view crime and morality as two separate things.  Crime is offenses against the individual that are to be dealt with by the state where as morality is the personal code one person follows to guide his or her life.  For most libertarians, crime is when one individual takes away another individual’s life, liberty, or property through force or fraud.  This covers such immoral acts like murder, property destruction, theft, and kidnapping.
This is how I reconcile these things.  I recognize that not everyone will life my the Christian moral code (heck, most Christians don’t live by it).  This is how I can be for the legalization of prostitution, gambling, and drugs and at the same time not be affected by such things if it was legalized.  I would argue that you have a very weak level of faith as a Christian if you suddenly feel the urge to have a gay marriage when it is legalized in your state.  The fact is, Christians are called to God first and we must follow Him, no matter what Earthly laws are in place.
This is the inherent problem with arguing morality vs. crime with conservatives.  For libertarians, we are starting from a completely different premise and as such our terminology is completely lost on most conservatives.  Even when we clarify our positions, we still end up not getting through because they don’t accept our premises.  The best way to argue is to address their premise and point out the fallacies in it.
Otherwise you may as well be arguing in Dutch to a Korean.