I agree with your list, except for a few; for starters, gay marriage. Government should get out of the marriage business altogether, but if we’re going to have Government involvement then it is up to each State to decide, not the Federal Government.
Likewise with the death penalty; that is a States issue, and if a State chooses not to support the death penalty that is the State’s right.
Drugs should not be Federally controlled; the Feds can constitutionally only get involved if those drugs are transported across State lines or imported (actual commerce); drugs grown or brewed within a State should be free of Federal interference within that same State.
So, am I not a conservative because we have a few different positions? Or are you not a conservative because we have a few different positions? That’s what this thread is turning into - a witch hunt where, unless someone has 100% ideological conformance to some unknown list of “conservative principles”, they are branded a RINO and tossed aside.
I would hope that conservatives would be more logical and less emotional about this issue! I dare say we’re behaving like liberals, letting the heart lead the head.
My position on being against gay marriage is I see it as yet another attack on the moral foundations of this country period. It has to do with the entire gay agenda and the damage they are doing to the fabric of our society as a whole.
It’s what I mean about “extra” rights.
I would be willing to live and let live. Stay away from me and my children. Keep your private life private and OUT of our classrooms. They are not so inclined. States and the fed gov have mandated that we accept this as normal and natural. It isn’t.
This is part and parcel of government forcing an unwilling population to accept that which is anathema to our values as parents and our religious faiths.
“Likewise with the death penalty; that is a States issue, and if a State chooses not to support the death penalty that is the State’s right.”
I agree it is a states right issue. Having said that, I am still pro death penalty for non-governmental reasons. Thou shalt not murder. It is an enduring facet of my faith, that the death penalty for murder is sacrosanct. IF you commit any other act, you may apologize to the victim, or ask the victim of your crime for forgiveness. In the case of murder, that is obviously impossible.
“Drugs should not be Federally controlled; the Feds can constitutionally only get involved if those drugs are transported across State lines or imported (actual commerce); drugs grown or brewed within a State should be free of Federal interference within that same State.”
Which is why I said I cannot make a blanket statement about drugs. It is a far more complicated issue than simply skimming the surface.
I do not like government mandates handed down from on high telling me what I can or cannot do on my own property.
I do not like government mandates that prohibit this country from using our own natural resources sending us into dependence when it is totally unnecessary.
I do not like the federal government telling me I MUST drive a vehicle that even my small frame can barely fit into.
And I could go on and on, but Conservative values are pretty straight across the board. To paraphrase a federal judge, I don’t know the definition of pornography, but I know it when I see it.