Conservatives like small government so why do they want the government to interfere in our personal lives?

Question

Why do they care if a woman chooses to have an abortion? Why do they care if two gay guys want to get married?

Answer 1

Liberal Student: What is your position on gun control?

Conservative Tight ***: Ughh you know the second amendment says. You know I feel that americans have the individual right to bear arms, as stated in the ughh second amendment. Who am I to violate the ughh second amendment.

Liberal Student: What about the patriot act and censorship of music,movies and the internet. Does'ent that violate the first amendment. Who are you to violate that!

Conservative Tight ***: ughh...No comment

Liberal Student: Tight ***


Conservatives contradict themselves all the time.

Answer 2

Conservative is a broad term, and it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Many conservatives don't really want the government in our bedrooms.

However, most conservatives do care about abortion. The idea is that the government has a responsibility to protect human lives, and if they believe that the baby in the womb is a human life, then they find it to be inhumane to end that life.

Only the most abusive governments in history have normally supported the "right" of one human to end another's life without cause. The fact that ending that life may be convenient for one party doesn't make it justified.

Answer 3

The question is do those issues belong in a presidential election? No. The president can't overturn Roe v Wade. It would take a court case in the Supreme Court to do so. The president can't do diddly about it so why make it an issue in an election? Frankly, it doesn't matter to me how they feel about it.

I don't know why there has to be a constitutional amendment about gay marriage. Why would it be called marriage? Who's the Mrs/Mr? How can the preacher/judge say, "I now pronounce you husband and wife." Then you'll have divorces, etc. I can see why they would want some kind of civil union but it isn't marriage. Do gays agree with that? Isn't the desire for a legal union for medical and financial reasons primarily?

These issues are just used as a ploy to make your vote based upon guilt instead of issues that can be altered by your vote. Mind games.

Answer 4

On the abortion issue I understand their complaint,it's a state sanctioned murder. But on the gay issue I say most conservatives are way off base,because the only way to support opposition to it is a religious argument,and this is not a theocracy. But as the religious right has hijacked the conservative movement they are destroying what being a conservative actually means. As for abortion I think it's long since past time to put it up to a national vote and settle it once and for all,if we are going to sanction the taking of an innocent life then let the nation as a whole vote and say they don't value human life.

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Answer 5

You really know the answers here, so I don't consider this legitimate inquiry, but questions masking opinions. But I'll play:

The far right wing conservatives who stick 100% to the party line believe that a) life begins with conception and thus abortion is murder and b) that marriage should only exist between a man and a woman.

That's why they care. Believing in small govt, yet believing in those two tenets are not mutually exclusive.

I tend to be conservative on fiscial and foreign policy, and a bit more liberal on social issues, so I don't necessairily believe as you stated, for the record.

Answer 6

If you believe that caring whether a woman has an abortion is an affront to her personal life, than you really are not very knowledgeable about human life (besides being very shallow). Did you happen to see last weeks episode of House. It was a good one. The hand grabbing the finger of House is coming from a baby in the womb, not the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Can you grasp that fact, or is it too inconvenient to acknowledge the reality?

Answer 7

Giving permission or not isn't interfering in ones life. It doesn't create a bigger government. If Roe v Wade was over turned tomorrow it would be a state by state choice whether it is legal to have an abortion. It wouldn't be illegal over night. It is quite likely in California it would be legal.

Personally from the gays I know it is financial more than any emotional reason they want it government sanctioned.

Answer 8

They just say they want small government to throw us off the scent. As they have proven time and again the debt always balloons when they get in power.

It's a vicious cycle with these guys, and the anti-abortion, anti-gay stuff keeps the fundie lemmings voting in their favor.

Answer 9

Conservatives run on the platform of smaller government in big business. Many people forget the last part Big Business.
They are for more government involvement in individuals.
The questioner has hit two key issue on government involvement.
plus also add under this adminstration
spying on phone calls listening for key words.
opening and reading individual mail
checking to see what website the individual surf.
That's more government involvement then ever before.

Answer 10

Uh,abortion kills a individual human being.According to your statement,the government should not make any laws against murder,because the government can't intefere in our personal lives......

We have a duty to protect the innocent.That means stopping abortion.