Conservatives, would you drop gay marriage or abortion from your platform, or do you see that as being concrete? (legal, Obama)

[gtc08]

thanks.

[Ceece]

There is nothing fiscally conservative about fighting against gay marriage and abortion, so I guess it depends on the conservative.

[shiftymh]

Gay marriage, sure. Abortion, not so much.

[no1brownsfan]

Originally Posted by Ceece

There is nothing fiscally conservative about fighting against gay marriage and abortion, so I guess it depends on the conservative.

I'm inclinded to agree. We have much more pressing matters in this country than what 2 consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home.

[texdav]

I think its the same as would liberal drop abortion or gay marriage really. For many its core beliefs and why we have different parties and different stances on everything from financial to social issues even within parties. Otherwise there would be no catholic democrats for example.

[Globe199]

Originally Posted by texdav

I think its the same as would liberal drop abortion or gay marriage really.

It's not at all the same. Your position is to take rights away. Our position is to grant them.

[Rggr]

I think those are both overblown as campaign issues. The gay marriage question will be resolved by the states and nothing too dramatic is going to happen on abortion in the near future.

[Andy]

Unless conservatives are stupid, they will be totally silent on these issues no matter what their beliefs are and change the subject back to repealing the ObamaCare evil, fixing the economy Obama & the Democrats have wrecked, and the ending the massive corruption in DC under Obama's watch.

In 2014, if a GOP candidate ain't talking about these three things exclusively, they are an idiot who should be booed off the stage.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Globe199

It's not at all the same. Your position is to take rights away. Our position is to grant them.

ObamaCare takes away rights. Gun control takes away rights. Speech codes take away rights. Growth management laws take away rights. Govt. regulations take away rights.

Conservatives are more pro-freedom than pro-control. Fascist/progressives are more pro-control than pro-freedom.

[boner]

hard core conservative and neither issue concerns me. You cannot stop a woman from terminating a pregnancy. A woman can answer to her God or conscious when she snuffs a fetus.

Gay marriage has legal reprecussions effecting Probate, wills, social services and other issues that effect us all. What a person does in the bedroom I could care less

Most conservatives are not the sterotypical bible thumping zealots liberals like to paint them as