Gay marriage is one point that confuses me about conservatives, although it's not my main source ofconfusion nowadays. I'd just like to respond to something in an above comment quickly as it affects me: ...marriage properly understood is not about individuals in intimacy with each other but the family as a unit... If by "family as a unit" you mean children, then childfree people (people who never want children) such as myself should never be able to marry by that logic. If you mean like a traditional two-person family, there is no reason why they could not be.
Anyway, on to the main point of this. Something I truly do not understand about today's conservatism is the United States' fiscal responsibility. The Republican party used to hold the ideal of small government and financial responsibility dear to its collective heart. Nowadays under this Bush administration, however, small government and financial responsibility of the government seems to be a thing of the long-gone past. What's with the switch?
One other point I do not understand is rather general, it's the idea of sacrificing civil rights for so-called national security. Why is everyone for that with such fervour?
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Date: 2004-11-12 07:36 pm (UTC)...marriage properly understood is not about individuals in intimacy with each other but the family as a unit...
If by "family as a unit" you mean children, then childfree people (people who never want children) such as myself should never be able to marry by that logic.
If you mean like a traditional two-person family, there is no reason why they could not be.
Anyway, on to the main point of this. Something I truly do not understand about today's conservatism is the United States' fiscal responsibility. The Republican party used to hold the ideal of small government and financial responsibility dear to its collective heart. Nowadays under this Bush administration, however, small government and financial responsibility of the government seems to be a thing of the long-gone past. What's with the switch?
One other point I do not understand is rather general, it's the idea of sacrificing civil rights for so-called national security. Why is everyone for that with such fervour?