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To: LibertarianInExile
At the risk of repeating myself ad nauseum, social conservatives find themselves (as do libertarians) in a situation in which politically correct liberals attempt to ram their philosophy down their throats.

Except social conservatives all too often want to restrict what you sell to whom, if they find the what or the whom immoral. See Playboy, alcohol, etc.

Most social conservatives understand that pornography is here to stay. They simply want it labeled as such so that they can avoid it if they don't want it. As for Alcohol, the worst offenders are "feel good" liberals who prey on guilt in order to raise taxes for their socialist schemes. MADD is a textbook example of a group that could care less about the results of their efforts as long as money keeps pouring into their coffers.

As to "tax exempt status". if, as libertarians wish, there were no property taxes, this question would be moot.

Social conservatives do NOT believe that it is the role of government to "indoctrinate people into good morals". This is absurd. Who could possibly believe that the government is good at anything, much less indoctrinating people into good morals..."

To finish, the GOP is a political party, and, as such, is much more interested in perpetuating itself than in addressing real issues. That being said, the GOP is somewhat more than marginally better at confronting the existential crisis which faces us than are the democrats.

51 posted on 10/31/2006 9:00:26 PM PST by Philistone
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To: Philistone; elkfersupper

"MADD is a textbook example of a group that could care less about the results of their efforts as long as money keeps pouring into their coffers."

We're agreed on this. However, for you to assert that "[no one] could possibly believe that the government is good at anything, much less indoctrinating people into good morals..." all one needs to do to discover just how many here on FR disagree with THAT is look at threads dealing with drinking and driving laws. I can't point you to one offhand, but I bet elk can. I'm sorry, but I think there is a significant percentage of the GOP that really does believe strongly in what Fred Barnes called 'big government conservatism,' and that government doing good is okay. Perhaps you personally are the exception, but all too often these people and the moniker 'social conservative' are correlated. I'm not saying one isn't a subset of the other--but the compassionate [social] conservative in chief seems to be almost revered by many of this crowd, and it's hard to imagine them as a minority of the GOP when they have the Presidency.


52 posted on 11/04/2006 1:33:02 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (When personal character isn't relevant to voters or party leaders, Foley happens.)
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