Doesn't that butcher the English language when it comes to what is actually "right"?
2007-05-31 09:34:23 · 8 answers · asked by Demopublican 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good point! "Right" can certainly be misleading to the uninformed and gullible, because much of the time they certainly are not "right" in either sense of the word. True conservatives (right-wingers) want government OUT of our lives. Activist conservative Christians want government very much IN our lives,
> Telling us what to believe, and poisoning childrens' and other gullible minds against true science (biblical creationism vs. scientific evolution)
> Making personal life & death decisions for us (abortion, Terry Schaivo, Dr. Kevorkian)
> Peeking into our bedrooms and telling us who we can love and have sex with (the whole gay issue)
> Forcing their own icons into our public forums (Bible verses & the Ten Commandments in the courthouse)
> Dishonoring and disrespecting our Constitutional judicial system (saying judges "legislate [pass laws] from the bench" - which is impossible - and seeking their dismissal if they make a decision Christian activists disagree with)
Not conservative values at all, not to mention their reverance for the President who has run up the biggest national deficit (debt) in history.
Conservatives are right wing. Activist Christians are definitely "Wrong Wing."
2007-05-31 09:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by Don P 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't refer to right and wrong, it refers to the legislative assembly of post-revolution France. The conservative royalists sat on the right side of the chamber, and the radical revolutionaries sat on the left. This is why conservatives are termed right wing; because they support the establishment and the ruling classes, and socialists (NOT liberals, you can have centre-right liberals - though most liberals are left wing) are termed left wing because they support change and the working classes.
I think it is quite a fair name, as most conservative Christians are very conservative people, and are therefore right wing.
2007-05-31 09:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by Mordent 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically conservatives claim to want the government out of our lives. Yet the so called Christian conservatives very much want Big Government regulating every aspect of our personal private lives. There is nothing conservative about that, not at all!
2007-05-31 09:39:09 · answer #3 · answered by jxt299 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are you valuable it did no longer say "Culty Conservatives"? And does no longer "Christian Conservative" be a sprint an oxymoron? i think of Jesus FED the 5 thousand extremely than coach them to fish and bake, and He did no longer examine the insurance of ANY of those lepers until now curing them as I remember...
2016-10-09 05:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by drago 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congressional seating is divided along party lines, with the GOP holding the 'right' side and the DNC holding the 'left'.
But you make a good point, Please feel free to call them the Wrong Wing. It's more appropriate.
2007-05-31 09:38:43 · answer #5 · answered by Fancy That 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it does. I guess we could call them the "Theocratic Wing"
2007-05-31 09:37:24 · answer #6 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are right
2007-05-31 09:37:47 · answer #7 · answered by Joel 2 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!
a left wing democrat
2007-05-31 09:39:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋