I guess we agree to disagree. Me, and we have friends who are gay (and yes my landlord for my office is gay) and they are conservative. I believe in small government, and that means I don’t care what you eat or sleep with (if both are consenting adults) or smoke.
That is libertarian, not conservative.
Conservatism is the political position that seeks to preserve valuable processes and values. So, we do care about things like obesity, sexuality, alcoholism, theft, murder, homosexual marriage, etc.
That's why we bring it up. They all hurt the person, the community, or the culture. We are 'conserving' the values that have been handed down that say these things are harmful.
You are taking a more libertarian than conservative approach. Did you know that?
Were you under the impression that I was asking for permission to disagree with you?
Me, and we have friends who are gay (and yes my landlord for my office is gay) and they are conservative.
If they believe like you do, they might be libertarians, but they ARE NOT conservative.
And what does you having a gay landlord have to do with anything? I was having lunch with some people at The Palm the other day and I'm pretty sure our waiter was a homosexual, but the food was good so I didn't complain. See, I can play the "I know gay people" card too.
I believe in small government, and that means I don’t care what you eat or sleep with (if both are consenting adults) or smoke.
Conservatism IS NOT, NEVER HAS BEEN and hopefully NEVER WILL BE about "small" government. Conservatism is about LIMITED GOVERNMENT and if you put down the bong you might understand the difference.