Is Free Republic becoming increasingly hostile towards Social Conservatives?

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[jimt]

...and his wife started the Just Say No campaign.

And who, according to her kids, was a mood-altering prescription pill popper of the first water. Possibly the pot calling the kettle black? Just a little?

[The Green Goblin]

Exactly.

[eno_]

Some people mistake a hostility toward posters too lazy to surf an online dictionary, or actually read the Constitution, or a Bible for that matter, with hostility toward social conservatives.

FR has pretty high standards for an online forum, and those standards are enforced by ridicule.

[breakem]

I am one of the unaware and was looking to you for leadership. You made the claim about them being here and I need your help, being less sophisticated in their ways than you.

[Dan from Michigan]

I disagree. I don't think most of these posters are disruptors. There are several wings of conservatism. What happened was that we lost our big enemy(Bill Klinton). If there was one uniting principle everyone here was, it was the distain for Klinton.

Klinton's gone, now what? While I'm mostly libertarian in my views, I know there is no home for me at all in the democrap party, paticulary when it comes to abortion and guns. I don't agree with everything in the GOP, but I can work with them. I can't work with the dems.

I also think many of us are PERSONALLY very conservative, but have a big problem with BIG GOVERNMENT enforcing what they think are morals in my house. I know I do.

[Antoninus]

Hey, there are a lot of contentious issues discussed and debated here on Free Republic. The social conservative vs. liberal/libertarian/libertine debates are some of the most entertaining and educational on here. There's no increase in "hostility" - there's just vigorous, spirited disagreement on some very fundamental issues.

Form our own website? Why?

[Ol' Sparky]

Most Methodist churches -- not all -- accept homosexuality and abortion. One I attended was sponsored by PFLAG (a homsexual group) and Planned Parenthood. And, the pastor was a pacifist and there was a prayer for a dog. Many Methodist churches are havens for left-wingers.

[Torie]

Adultery is a crime against one's spouse. Legalizing that behavior has broken down the family in this nation

You do know that if we send adulterers to jail we will need to let out all the druggies, since there isn't room for both. So who do you want locked up more, druggies or adulterers?

[OWK]

No kidding. Nixon wasn't a principled man. But, he knew opposing drugs was a winning issue and he knew those that favored legalizing drugs were the far-left wing hippie culture that turned off a majority of voters.

Just like Bush knew that promising old people "free prescriptions" was a winning issue.... But that didn't make his promise morally justifiable.

Can you see the distinction between "winning issue", and "morally right"?

The two are not always the same.

[OWK]

the pastor was a pacifist and there was a prayer for a dog.

A prayer for a dog?

A pacifist.

And you didn't "tar and feather" 'em on the spot?

[Cogadh na Sith]

Oh My God!

We have finally done it!

We have a Libertarian vs Conservative/Catholic vs Protestant/Pro-WoD vs anti-WoD/evolution vs creationism/Neo-Con vs Paleo-Con thread WITH Moose and Cheese!!!!

BTW Ol' Sparky, How do you feel about Harry Potter?

AYBABTU!

[WIMom]

To: WIMom

please start a list so that we can drive the bastards out!

139 posted on 2/7/02 12:07 PM Central by breakem

Nope, I'm not getting sucked into it.

[rwfromkansas]

You are correct. It is due to Libertarians and liberal disrupters. Most of the Freeper population still supports our causes though...by far as far as I can tell since it is the same people who attack our views, while new people who support us pop in all the time.

[The Green Goblin]

Libertarian/liberal is the same thing when is comes to drug legalization, the legalization of prostitution, abortion and assisted suicide.

No, it's not. leaving aside the fact that there are many pro-life libertarians, you also ignore the fact that much of liberalism advocates the same kind of prohibitive government regulation as you do, as the case of the tobacco companies clearly shows. Those liberals who would ban cigarettes, fatty foods etc. share your philosophy, not mine.

[Ol' Sparky]

There is a BIG difference between opposing the excesses of the Drug War and supporting the legalization of drugs. Legalization of marijuana has failed everywhere it's been tried. In fact, legalization of marijuana and lighter punishment for drug use in the 1970s paved the way for the public to support the WOD.

[rbmillerjr]

You evaded the question and didnt tell me which specific church it is who is the owner of all the truth as it relates to God and the acceptance or non acceptance of evolution as compatible with the belief in God?

[toupsie]

I know the majority of people support the drug war. They are still wrong. Ever hear of Tyranny of the Majority?

That is not entirely true. When polled and at the ballot box, America has been moving away from Marijuana prohibition. Americans, according to these surveys and initiatives, would rather Government focus on drugs like cocaine, heroin, GBH, Meth and ecstasy.

However, there is one group of Americans that supports the "War on Drugs" 100%. They are the Drug Dealers. Not the kind of company I want to keep.

[SoDak]

No doubt.

[Dog Gone]

I don't even know what a Social Conservative is.

A lot of people describe themselves as that, but it doesn't mean anything to me.

A lot of people who are one-issue voters describe themselves as Social Conservatives. That certainly includes some very zealous Pro-lifers, but it also includes some people for whom immigration, legal or otherwise, is the obsession. Others include the Religious Right, where morals and biblical teachings are the only lens through which politics is viewed.

I could go on, but my point is that these camps may not share common views on ANY subject, but they are all Social Conservatives.

[Ol' Sparky]

Yes. The 20-year War on Drugs has reduced monthly drug use from 26 million in 1979 to 14 million in 2000 (National Household Survey on Drug Abuse). Tougher laws and stigmatization has worked very well. And, only the ignorant don't remember how much more drug use there was in the 1970s in the Cheech and Chong, "joker-smoker-midnight-toker" decade.