What do you or your wife consider a "hardline religous right social agenda?"
...three major GOP planks: social conservativism, fiscal responsibility and limitation of government.
What do you consider an adequate level of social conservatism then?
I am really interested since these terms can be rather vauge and have different meanings depending on the individual.
Just a few examples: pushing for prayer in schools, fights to include the teaching of creationism in public schools, the ten commandments in schools and courthouses, increased obscenity prosecutions and (in her case, but not mine) attempts to outlaw abortion.
What do you consider an adequate level of social conservatism then?
For one, I agree that the secular left has gone too far in their attempts to drive religion out of the public sphere. Though I support keeping government out of religion, that does not mean that our society needs to be made religion-free. Similarly, I think social conservatives are dead on when they argue that schools have become socialist re-education camps.
Furthermore, I'm a "soft" opponent of gay marriage- I do not want to see gay marriage forced upon us by the courts, but I think states should be allowed to decide the issue for themselves (so long as other states can opt to ignore gay marriages from states that do allow it).
If I've missed any issues on the social conservative agenda, I'd be happy to comment on them if you bring them up.