Lurkers, newbies, fellow conservatives, please understand that false-witess-bearing "conservatives" such as ansel12 are a minority.
I'm penning this post in response to ansel12, though I've adopted the habit of skipping his posts if I'm quick enough to see the author, because in the past, I've read too many posts from fellow conservatives who have been soured on Free Republic because of willfully self-deceived self-appointed moral arbiters like Ansel12 (a member of FR's small but vocal contingent of Church Lady Moralists) libel them as being "pro abortion and pro homosexual" because they believe in limited government, whereas ansell apparently believes in FORCE OF GOVERNMENT to make the children ... er, Americans, behave themselves.
Which is of course what pro abortion and pro homosexual Democrats believe as well, except THEY think the children ... er, Americans, aren't behaving morally when they reject abortion in their state (as two thirds did before Roe v Wade) and when they tell open homosexuals to take a hike. Ansell12/Church Lady anti-small-l-libertarian contingent call for the same statist government nanny "for our own good."
Ansel12 has to bear false witness (equating limited government with "not wanting to stop" two forms of moral malaise that ONLY exist because of government, hence voting to "stop" it is inane) in order to promote the validity of that "conservative" opinion.
He represents a SMALL MINORITY of Free Repubic, but he and his fellow Church Ladies are spiteful, they lie, and they are nasty and ugly. Good, moral, Christian conservatives, please remain on FR but ignore Ansel12 & the Church Lady Contingent's shrill, ugly, libelous hysterics.
Finny, you have to get yourself under control, and try to not become a troll, or stalker.
Try to stay focused on thread topics, and do not carry whatever personal grudges you have from thread to thread, especially to this extent.
You are ranting, if you want to defend your positions on abortion and gay marriage, then do it, but try to make sense so that we can challenge, or respond to them, in defense of conservatism.