re: #816 SixDegrees

Any enactment of law restricts individual liberty. But people accept such restrictions to further ends which they deem to be more important. Thus, for example, when a municipality enacts laws restricting the locations “adult” businesses, the liberty of some (particularly the proprietors) is restricted. But that is deemed by the majority to be an acceptable trade-off to advance other goals deemed more important. Conservatism does not stand for the proposition that any restriction of personal liberty is bad.

The primary agenda items of the religious right in recent times have been abortion, gay marriage and human embryonic research. If you disagree with the religious right on those issues, that is your right. But to suggest that the religious right is, by taking their positions on these issues, effectively looking to “to toss individual responsibility - and individual freedom - on the trash heap” is way over the top.