To: Repairman Jack; NCSteve; Jaysun; tacticalogicAny one who believes that the government should act "despite ... limitations on their power" is not a conservative.
"... Social conservatives believe that the federal or state government can and should act, despite the other limitations on their power, to support institutions that tend to engender a strong moral character, such as church and marriage."
# 57 by NutCrackerBoy
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I tend to agree. A Christian theocracy is no less tryannical than a Muslim one. To ignore that is to ignore the reason for the foundation of our country. Make no mistake, I am most emphatically and profoundly a Christian.
I believe that conservatism is a guiding principle for creating a more perfect form of government. I believe, as I said to Repairman Jack, that conservatives must balance their principles against the steep and slippery slope toward tyranny. We must be guided by our religious scruples and it must be the framework upon which we build our society. I believe that if our ideas are superior, they will be adopted. It is simply up to us to make the case.
The grand total of two words ("the other") you replaced with an ellipsis were key - you distorted my words. Of course government should act to support institutions. That is the position of the original conservative, Edmund Burke.