[wwjdn]

To label someone conservative in our community is meant to cross a line through that person’s name—to associate us with religious fanatics and fundamentalists. Ironically, in all my work I have found that the genuine conservative, who champions the traditional American value of individual liberty, is upholding the values that make it possible for everyone, especially gays and lesbians, to live our lives as we choose.

The author needs a course in conservatism... we think homosexuals don't belong in a normal society. She is thinking libertarians (fence sitters), who want a feel good society of anarchy and socialism… I am a conservative and darn proud of it! My God is the ruler of all creation and I answer only to Him.

[delphine]

"Conservatism" generally implies a belief in limited government and a resistance to rapid change, not religious evangelism or belief in theocracy. To be sure, it's perfectly possible to be evangelical and conservative, in fact the two are positive correlated in the US, and, generally, in the west generally, but they do not have the same meaning.

[Tuor]

She is thinking libertarians (fence sitters), who want a feel good society of anarchy and socialism.

And you should take a course in libertarianism. Libertarians want small government, not *no* government and certainly not socialism.

As a semi-libertarian, I want the smallest possible government needed to do the things proscribed by the Constitution. No larger...and no smaller. I believe, that the State should stay out of those individual freedoms which do not interfere with the freedoms of others, *whether or not I agree with them*.

I don't see how that is 'fence sitting.'

Tuor