If you look at stats for teen/underage sex and pre-marital sex it seems that only a tiny minority of the young are socially conservative.
In 50 years time will the promiscuity and failed marriages of, for instance, the Hollywood libs be the norm for the rest of society?
2007-04-24 11:08:41 · 12 answers · asked by Chris W 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yet there is still hope. I'm a member of the Christian club and the Young America Foundation at my high school. We advance campus conservatism.
2007-04-24 11:20:04 · answer #1 · answered by RICARDVS 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You're making some serious logic jumps.
First, social conservatism usually consists of some group telling the rest of us what to do.
Second, underage and premarital sex have always been with us. Social conservatives have a tendency to publicize such activities, often with a negative spin, to make it seem as if all teens are having sex all the time.
Third, Hollywood is populated with people with so much money that they can do anything they want, whether they are conservative or liberal, so the term Hollywood libs is inaccurate and meaningless. People with lots of money, especially idolized celebrities, act as if they are a different species of people, whose conduct is not subject to the same rules as the rest of the people of their country.
If social conservatism should die out - I hope so - more people could make up their own minds, and act in a more open, reasonable way. There will still be some promiscuity and failed marriges, but you and I will enjoy lives based on a code of conduct that we feel comfortable with. Reasonable human beings usually do the right thing when they think for themselves.
Don't worry about conservatives or liberals, just be a good person and true to Yourself, and let the rest of the population do the same.
2007-04-24 18:21:52 · answer #2 · answered by falconrf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. I do think that. I am very socially conservative on many issues,
and I think that more than anything has to be the most persecuted point of view, not only in the country, but WORLD WIDE!
There is no tolerance for you at all if you have conservative social beliefs.
Even if you have facts and evidence to back up your beliefs, they are not tolerated.
It's not so much that those would-be facts are even denied,
it's more or less, "there is no right or wrong, only difference of opinion, so you have no right to judge me".
And this argument is very wanton and immature and avoids the very law structure of what keeps civilization together and sane.
2007-04-24 18:23:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my Grandma got married at 14... and she's 95 now... and that's how it was for THOUSANDS OF YEARS... everyone had teen sex, because they were ALL MARRIED...
WHY? because people understood that teens have raging hormones and they let them marry...
but now, you want them to wait, and wait and wait... in some cases until they are out of college... and it's just insanely naive and shows a general lack of knowledge of the human body and hormones...
you have to make a choice... promote earlier marriages to go along with the human's natural body cycles... or lessen the social penalties for sex before marriage...
it seems our society is choosing the latter... but it is in part due to social conservatives inflexibility in both cases, to support earlier marriages or pre-marital sex...
you can't fight biology... you have to adjust to it... as it was for thousands of years...
now you want to just pretend it doesn't matter? you will fail if you don't change...
2007-04-24 18:20:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is social conservatism dying out in America? We can only hope.
Because social conservatism is great for older, white, Christian men. The rest of us are pretty much out of luck.
2007-04-24 18:14:44 · answer #5 · answered by Mother Amethyst 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yeah, haven't you heard? Every teenager wants to grow up and be just like Alec Baldwin or Anna Nicole Smith. They're such great role models.
2007-04-24 18:13:09 · answer #6 · answered by open4one 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Someone has to be having sex or we'll all die out - Lord knows social conservatives would never stoop to such an undignified activity as sex, eh?!
2007-04-24 18:13:35 · answer #7 · answered by Ben 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I drifted to liberalism when i was in my late teens through college years also.. but eventually I found the flaws. Part of it is age and rebellion.
2007-04-24 18:26:22 · answer #8 · answered by sociald 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Look up the divorce rates. The red states have higher divorce rates. Which states has the lowest?
MASSACHUSETTS.
You know the state that legalized gay marriage.
2007-04-24 18:13:53 · answer #9 · answered by trovalta_stinks_2 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
yes, and the use of abortion for ignorant birth control will still be condoned by the left
2007-04-24 18:21:32 · answer #10 · answered by Mon-chu' 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋