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To: ForeignDude
Yada yada yada... rant rant... feel better. Here is one that will piss you off... you cannot be a Conservative and embrace abortion or homosexuality. Conservatives do not need to persecute either... but neither do we need to embrace them or compromise our integrity to embrace them. Read my post in this thread about what Reagan said about both. BTW... I am a proud CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE... not all Christians are Conservative and not all Christians are Christian.

LLS

243 posted on 02/02/2009 11:06:44 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: LibLieSlayer; All

How about embracing a smaller Government??


244 posted on 02/02/2009 11:07:36 AM PST by KevinDavis (Thomas Jefferson: A little rebellion now and then is a good thing)
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To: LibLieSlayer

And THAT’s why the Republican Party will die, and socialism will emerge triumphant.

When you make “conservatism” into a litmus test for religious orthodoxy, then you will drive otherwise good conservatives away.

Think about what you said: “you cannot be a Conservative and embrace abortion or homosexuality...” I guess I’m not a conservative, then. If a woman chooses to have an abortion, that’s between her and God, nothing to do with me or the government. I don’t care what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms, whether they sleep with a man, a woman, or neither. I don’t want the government to mandate anything in relation to abortion, against or in favor. Likewise, I want the government to stay out of people’s bedrooms. I don’t want the government to celebrate or denounce abortion or homosexuality. I don’t want the government to spend money subsidizing abortion, or enforcing a ban thereof.

It appears that you and I have very different ideas of what constitutes “conservatism”. I embrace a conservatism that tolerates all religions, nationalities, ethnicities, and (yes) sexual orientations: all under a limited federal government, bound by the strictures of the Constitution.

More to the point, it’s clear that you hold a very different vision of that “conservative” government would look like, and I doubt that those like you would hesitate to impose your views on all of us at the point of a bayonet. Faced with secular totalitarianism of the Left or a religious totalitarianism from the Right, I will fight against both, for they are both equally abhorrent to the tenets of Liberty. And I submit to you, Sir, that anyone who “embraces” religious totalitarianism is as much an enemy of America and the Constitution as Communism, Socialism, Nazism, and Islamism.


345 posted on 02/02/2009 12:16:06 PM PST by ForeignDude
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