[tacticalogic]

If we can’t convince each other of the truth of our positions, when we already agree on a great many things, how can we convince others, who we have more fundamental disagreements with? I think we need to have these “internal debates”, until we achieve some consensus.

Describe what you'd consider an acceptable consensus.

[Boogieman]

Well, I’m not sure about that. If I knew the answer, I could publish an essay arguing for it in some conservative mag, wait for the inevitable acceptance, and claim my kudos :)

Whatever it is, it has to be a position that:

a) doesn’t offend any significant element of the conservative movement
b) effectively rebuts the relevant points of the liberal position that they use to support their agenda
c) is easily to articulate to the public in a way they can digest
and
d) is not easy for the liberals to deceptively twist in order to make us look foolish or hypocritical

What that would be exactly, I don’t know. Please note, I may think my interpretation of Genesis is theologically correct, but I am not arguing that we should present a theological argument as our political position. Those are two separate things entirely, even if they may be related because of the liberal attacks on traditional religious ideas.