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Wikipedia - social conservative


DenimDaze

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Social conservatism is a political or moral ideology that believes the government has a role in encouraging or enforcing traditional values or behaviors based on the belief that these are what keep people civilized and decent. A second meaning of the term social conservativism has developed in the Nordic countries and continental Europe. Here it refers to liberal conservatives supporting modern European welfare states. Social conservatism is distinct from cultural conservatism which focuses on cultural aspects of the issues, such as protecting one's culture, although there are some overlaps.

 

The accepted meaning of traditional morality often differs from group to group within social conservatism. Thus, there are really no policies or positions that could be considered universal among social conservatives. There are, however, a number of principles to which at least a majority of social conservatives adhere. Social conservatives in many countries generally: favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose embryonic stem cell research; support the death penalty, promote traditional marriage and the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in homosexual relationships; promote public morality and traditional family values; oppose secularism and privatization of religious belief; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution and euthanasia; and support the censorship of pornography, obscenity, indecency.

 

 

 

That doesn't make it sound too bad, does it? The problem is, Social Conservatives have among their number the nastiest and rudest people it has ever been my misfortune to meet. If you disagree with any of their sacred cows - they show you just how Christian they ARENT. Their tolerance is nonexistant - I do not want such people running anything I have to be a part of.

 

 

 

I remember Pat Robertson and his agenda. As we shouldn't allow the second ammendment to be weakened by gun haters, we should not allow social conservatives to work toward legislating morality. I do not want to live in a country run by Social Conservative rules, it would just be a 'Christian' version of Saudi Arabia. Lets keep America the land of free gun owners, 'k?

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