BendingAbsurdity wrote:
What link are you referring to?
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To: ambrose
Info from The Straight Dope.
76 posted on 07/18/2004 5:00:42 PM PDT by rabidralph (My pit bull drives an SUV.)
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To: The Libertarian Dude; tpaine
Like Richard Gere. Does it seem ironic for a Buddhist to be whining?
77 posted on 07/18/2004 5:04:35 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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"The Straight Dope" link you referred to at #76, in your post #77.
Why did you initiate a post to me on this thread?
But several conservatives, young and old, said the greatest division in the movement pitted young traditionalists against their more libertarian peers. David Weigel, 22, the former editor of a conservative magazine at Northwestern University, a contributor to the libertarian magazine Reason and an intern at the editorial page of USA Today, said that last spring his college paper had trouble finding any conservatives on campus who supported amending the constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
He contended that even young conservatives who maintained a strict moral code for themselves were increasingly reluctant to regulate the behavior of others. "I am personally abstinent," he said, "and I plan to stay that way, but I have no problem with international aid programs that use or distribute condoms."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173211/posts
That would be the guess.
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity; randog; Everybody
But several conservatives, young and old, said the greatest division in the movement pitted young traditionalists against their more libertarian peers.
David Weigel, 22, the former editor of a conservative magazine at Northwestern University, a contributor to the libertarian magazine Reason and an intern at the editorial page of USA Today, --- contended that even young conservatives who maintained a strict moral code for themselves were increasingly reluctant to regulate the behavior of others.
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HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity wrote:
Good grief. Is this what has happened to the conservative movement? What a waste of time. What ever happened to cutting taxes and reforming education?
What on earth are these kids studying these days?
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tpaine: Perhaps they are studying the principles of our Republic, -- wherein the Founders contended that while eveyone should maintain a strict moral code for themselves, --- 'We the People' should be very reluctant to allow any level of government to regulate the behavior of others.
26 posted on 07/17/2004 1:48:38 PM PDT by tpaine (No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)