Where do the laws come from? Men, not some ethereal entity. Since we are the creators of the laws, then we should have a say in what the laws are.
Your whole statement is an attempt to place on conservatives the very thing that is happening to liberals: when I detected many conservatives beginning to care more about power than principles. The right began to seem less interesting to me--more whiny, more shallow--and, what's more, in what I saw as an uncritical devotion to President Bush, often in retreat from its best insights about human nature.
This is exactly what is happening to the liberal movement.
ping to number 538, although many seemed to have debunked both of your points that I cited.