Core beliefs are not teachable past a certain impressionable age. Children are taught morality. But when an adult professes to be “conservative” and supports arch-liberal causes, that is not “teachable”. That is a core conviction. He has every right to be pro-homosexual. He approves of their behavior and that is his right. But he is not a conservative and no amount of teaching will make him one.
I didn’t join FR until I was almost 30. I had plenty of ‘core beliefs’.
But I’d come to a point in my life where I’d started to rethink things. I’d lived long enough to start to see holes in the things I’d been taught. I’d developed a new interest (homeschooling) that opened my mind to a new way of thinking.
John Stossel was older than I was when he woke up. There are many people who convert from liberalism later in life.
“If you aren’t a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you aren’t a conservative by 30, you have no brain.”
That came from somewhere.
No. If someone is open enough to ask the question, they are old enough to be enlightened.