If so, then this is not really a conservative site — certainly not the broad-based one it was, when I signed up in 2000. Rather, it is now a specifically social/religious conservative site.
***I’m pretty sure the same words were there when I signed up in 1998 and were there when you signed up in 2000. I don’t think the site has changed, nor has Jim Rob, nor have socons for the most part. Perhaps it is your perpsective that has changed.
You have a point. I acknowledge that I've reversed the normal -- or, at least stereotyped -- process and actually become more culturally relaxed, since I married and, particularly, since I became a parent.
That said, the atmosphere in the GOP and conservative movement have changed. In 2000, Clinton had been President for 8 year and Gore was on the verge of taking that office. There was more of a "We're all in this together" vibe.
Six-plus years into Bush's term of office and the divisions that were plastered over in common cause more than beginning to show. Everyone has certain issues that they think should be put first and that the other guys' issues should be the ones compromised on. And that's just where there's general agreement.
Where there is disagreement -- as there is between religious conservatism and leave-people-alone conservatism, what starts as a crack can become a schism. The plaster hiding the differences can only stretch so far, before cracks show.
It's the natural course of all political movements, I guess. So maybe it's not a matter of either the site or my perceptions changing, as much as politics in general have changed.