As a man who’s been married for 20 years, let me be the first to declare that it’s not about definitions. I don’t care who calls what, what, because my relationship will remain unchanged. I’m all for getting government out of marriage. But then, I’m all for getting government out of most things.
All too often, I get the feeling that a certain brand of conservatism differs only from liberalism in the areas that it wants government to join them in forcing their beliefs on others. Both want intrusive government to invade the private lives of citizens to make them toe the line. In all honesty, they’re more alike than they’ll ever admit. Luckily, there are plenty of genuine small government conservatives that want to put a stop to it.
The homosexual/Muslim lobby wins another convert to end marriage and free it up to whatever anybody wants.
That is great 1960s thinking, what is called, low tax, liberalism.
Conservatives want to preserve marriage, but we won’t be lynching you guys like Americans would have 200 years ago.
“All too often, I get the feeling that a certain brand of conservatism differs only from liberalism in the areas that it wants government to join them in forcing their beliefs on others.”
Nailed it, and it’s overly apparent that this is a dogmatic “my denomination is better than yours” argument, as the poster has referenced 3 different religions in multiple posts. (S)/he has a over-zealous “my religion” is better than yours axe to grind, accusing people of following whatever line of thinking (s)/he thinks will be the easiest strawman to build up and tear down. It’s sad, really.