Posted on 04/20/2007 9:51:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
I hate to say it again, but guess it has to be said:
Free Republic is a conservative site.
As a conservative site, we are pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty, pro-America.
Like-minded folks know immediately what this means and why we will never "move on from abortion" as Rudy Giuliani and his supporters ask us to do.
Think about it.
You might as well be asking us to deny God. To deny the Creator that gave us life and liberty. To give up our children. To surrender our country to the left. To give up our freedom. To give up our faith and our belief in God's Word.
Why insult us like this?
IMHO, the root difference between conservatism and liberalism IS our belief in God. For the most part, we conservatives defend our Christian/Judeo founding and our God-centered traditional American society and family values system, and the belief that our most fundamental rights were bestowed upon us by our Creator. Rights given by man can be taken by man. Rights bestowed by God are unalienable rights.
Liberals, on the other hand, especially the Marxist/socialist liberal leadership and the big leftist feminist, homosexualist, abortionist, anti-religion organizations deny God exists. They deny our Christian/Judeo heritage, work overtime to destroy our traditional family values, and seek to destroy our freedoms, including, and especially our right to the free exercise of religion.
Our deeply rooted conservative belief in God and refusal to roll over for feminism, abortionism, homosexualism, socialism, etc., is the only thing stopping the left from completely overwhelming us with their godless, socialist perversions and completely wiping out our traditional Christian/Judeo God-centered free society.
If we cave-in to the left by nominating a supporter of abortion rights, gay rights, gun control, illegal aliens, etc., as our candidate for the presidency and de facto leader of the Republican party, then we will have destroyed our own pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty movement and will have destroyed all of our prior pro-life, pro family, pro-liberty work. The Republican party will have made itself a joke. It'll be left standing for nothing. Worse, it'll be left standing with NARAL, NOW, the ACLU, and every other feminist/homosexualist Marxist/socialist communist group.
Surrender to the abortionists? Not on your life!
This is Free Republic. We ARE the dissent! We fight for life and liberty! We fight for our traditional American family values! We proudly and diligently defend our Christian/Judeo heritage, our country, our constitution, and our right to be free and to freely worship our God!
IMHO, those of you who cannot or will not understand these simple truths will never understand what FR is all about, what the pro-life movement is all about, what conservatism is all about, or even what freedom is all about.
Unfortunately, there are a few FReepers who think that they are conservative because they are lifelong GOP voters and that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Free Republic is not a Republican website or an anti-Democrat website, it is a conservative website. Conservatism is about belief in conservative ideals, not party affiliation.
I guess we're not much of a perceived threat. I've personally stated, on occasion, such outrageous things as the fact that I have no hatred of homosexuals; yet I am also still here.
I guess our "Satanistic beliefs" haven't been considered a serious threat.
“Free Republic is not a Republican website or an anti-Democrat website, it is a conservative website. Conservatism is about belief in conservative ideals, not party affiliation.”
Absolutely. And I think that I have (inadvertently) put that to the test more than once. There have been some frisky exchanges between myself and other posters that I’m certain the mods got called in on. Usually along the lines of “how dare a lowlife democRAT question ME!”
Well, I can’t resist tasty bait like that....:-)
Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
Amen!
To paraphrase Reagan, march out with a banner of bold colors and on to victory!
Don’t you ever again ping me based on a ping list that you hijacked.
In fact, consider this formal notification that you are never to include me in any ping list that you maintain.
Next time you add me to a ping list without my consent I am just going to hit the report abuse button.
You have crossed a line. Don’t do it again.
Polls this far out from the election (primaries aren't until next year, remember?) mean only one thing: Name recognition. Well, name recognition is easy to get (Who knew who Bill Clinton was at this time in 1991?) and it isn't what wins the election.
ROTFLMAO!
You post on a public forum. You get posted to in the same place. You whine and threaten. You are a liberal.
Amen.
All three of these are, IMO, conservative principles. Now, there always has been a tension, between the third on my list and certain aspects of social religious conservatism.
When you write: As a conservative site, we are pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty, pro-America., you appear to be defining conservatism almost entirely as a matter of being a social/religious conservative."
When abortion was illegal, did government stay out of the lives of individuals?
WOOOHOOO!! GREAT job, JimRob!! I will be passing this one on to those in my pro-life email. :o)
Ripping a small child's limbs off is not conservative. neither is tolerating it, considering it a sacred right equivalent to freedom of speech, or promoting it.
Sorry if that leaves you out, but it is the bottom line.
Democrats aren't conservatives.
A good conservative site is an anti-Democrat site.
No offense, but can you tell the difference between 1 month and 9 months?
Strnage indeed is the libertarian who supports the GOP's foremost gun grabber.
Thank you for what you said and for Free Republic.
Neither does running a northeastern lib against a northeastern lib.
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