[Sloth]

What’s needed is to stick to secular, concrete issues when working to influence government. Property rights, cutting taxes, RKBA — these are the areas where a solid majority can be built, but only if social/religious issues are taken off the table... The RKBA issue, for example, would have been definitively won decades ago, if conservatives had not been consistently packaging the issue in candidates who were simultaneously ranting against abortion and gay marriage.

Gay marriage is indeed a distraction, but abortion IS a secular, concrete issue. It is no more "religious" in character than any other form of homicide. And what you are saying is analogous to telling 19th century abolitionists, "Quit harping on this slavery issue, so we can make progress on other areas like railroad taxes."

[XR7]

The RKBA issue, for example, would have been definitively won decades ago, if conservatives had not been consistently packaging the issue in candidates who were simultaneously ranting against abortion...

The Basics:

We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Lest we, like the rest of the country has, forget.

[GovernmentShrinker]

And analogous to telling 21st century anti-war activists, “Quit harping on this war issue, so we can make progress on other areas like freedom.”