Whose 'tradition' would that be? The theocrats? It certainly isn't the prevailing tradition of the founders. Now...it certainly is in a tradition of say....Oliver Cromwell. He was English....not an American, and certainly not a believer of natural rights.

Certainly if an individual does not act responsibly and violates the equal right of another, then government should intercede. However, if no rights are violated, nor property trespassed upon, the government should stay out of private matters.

It IS NOT to purpose of government to engage in social engineering.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

Umm, there haven't been any western Judeo-Christian societies for 3,000 years, as seeing as Christianity isn't even that old.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

You don't have to be steeped in tradition to be a conservative. "Conservative" has different meanings socially and politically. Example, socially, one might say, "those are conservative estimates" or "please dress conservatively," that doesn't mean that those are estimates of a political ideology, or that they don't want you to dress like a democrat.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Dude, it's immoral in your judgment. Not necessarily in someone else's. If someone is sleeping around, their spouse should take care of it. If someone wants to commit adultery...actually, those two are the same thing. Nevermind.

If someone wants to get high on crack, well, it's that person's life and body being ****ed up.
If someone wants to "kill" the unborn...well, that's stupid, since you can't "kill" something that has never actually lived on its own.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It isn't the purpose of government to dictate morality.

Social conservatism /= constitutional conservatism

There IS NO AUTHORITY IN THE CONSTITUTION provided to the government to legislate 'what' a person injests. There IS NO AUTHORITY IN THE CONSTITUTION provided to the government to legislate 'criminal punishment' for marital indescretions.

Claiming to be 'conservative' while ignoring the constitutional limits placed on government, I find.......well......hypocritical.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

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Defeating market theocrats since 2001.

Society is individuals. Unless that "immorality" is harming other individuals there is not a problem.

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

No, they are following the classical liberal traditions of America's founding.

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Sorry But you are dead wrong. I believe that A government that attempts to legislate Morality is immoral.

Morality is Subjective. And that is the hallmark of a free society.

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