‘They believe that those rights, which WE as Conservatives view as given by our Creator (and thus CANNOT be taken away by a government or person)...’
you’re joking right...? you really believe there is some threshold that a government won’t cross in order to establish tighter control on a populace because of some words written on a document...? every single thing you’ve worked for and think you own can be taken away from you, if a government and the courts decide a situation demands it, and there is nothing, nothing, that will stop them from doing so...
‘if a government and the courts decide a situation demands it, and there is nothing, nothing, that will stop them from doing so...’
I should edit my own post, and insert the following...
‘there is nothing, nothing that will stop them from doing so, if the people themselves are acquiescent to them doing so...’
I believe that the reason we are still here, some 230 years after the Constitution was agreed upon, is that we are a Republic of Laws. We are not a Republic of Men. We are a Republic of Laws, and the Constitution lays those laws out.
I believe that everyone should believe in God. Is that reality?
No.
I don't want to be a sinner. Am I one?
Yes. I don't want to do dumb, stupid, selfish, or cruel things, but I still manage to do them. Am I going to say "Well, I am human. That happens. I might as well embrace it"?
No.
I get up every day, I try to get closer to God, I try to be a better person, and I try not to be dumb, stupid, selfish and cruel. I try. And I fail. But I have principles, and I know right from wrong. So I strive to be right.
When I fail, I pick myself up the next day and try to do better. Every time. Because Reality and the Ideal are always two separate things. But even though at my age I STILL fail, I don't give up.
It is a Leftist trait to see that there is a gulf between the ideal and the reality of human imperfectibility...and to stop striving and embrace the imperfect behavior as a normal. That is what we see with homosexuality. That is what we see with crime.
However, I won't do it. Because my country is imperfect, it doesn't mean I am going to throw up my hands and hand it over to the Left.
Do you have another form of government you think we should instill?
Perhaps a government where conservatives get to make the rules and rule by dictat?
I doubt you would, otherwise you likely wouldn't be here on Free Republic, because I suspect you know that would result in tyranny just as well.
I doubt you meant your post as a surrender, but I think it could be mistaken by some as such a thing.