Problem with that blog op-ed is that the so-called conservatives (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean anymore) merely talk about smaller gubmint and more personal responsibility, then turn around and govern like the socialists they supposedly oppose.
Dude, don't let these idiots get away with this...
US Conservatives are the embodiment of America... Conservatives are those people that seek to CONSERVE the immutable principles on which the United States was founded; the principles that are "America." Conservatism is represented in the US Declaration of Independence... and there is NOTHING within the entire scope of Left-think, including 'liberalism,' which advances, advocates for or adheres to ANY of those principles.
Where Liberalism tries to do so, it does so PURELY on the false notion that whatever "RIGHT" the Left claims to adhere, they claim such on the want for the Right... even as they REJECT THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT SUSTAINS THE RIGHT... and there is absolutely no means to possess a right absent the foundational responsibility for that right.
Be it Free-speech, Privacy, Property, sexual.... they claim the right and reject the responsibility which ensures that right.
Conservatism has a meaning; and the OP itself; and all of the harping on the issue which originates with the Left, with regard to the projection of '
true Conservatives' is nothing less than a concerted effort to blur the meaning of that word.
By simply stating' 'conservatives... whatever that means anymore' you promote the notion that Conservatism doesn't mean anything.
There is NOTHING in the American root which precludes the establishment of or provides a justifiable grounds to disregard sound cultural standards. PERIOD.
Thus there is absolutely no potential basis in sound reasoning which can claim that 'true conservatives' would stand against the normalizations of sexual abnormality... or deprive the sexually abnormal from participating in cultural circumstances which are limited to the normal...
The argument is NO MORE COMPLEX than THAT... and all of these fruits and nuts clambering on trying to define their opposition is nothing more than a delusion on mass which advances a just as massive straw Dog, against which they hope to successfully present an effective argument.
It's nonsense... they're losing... and they're about to LOSE BIG! They know this and they're growing desperate...
Let them lose... the arguments are all fundamental... there are no new deep thoughts to be had... there is no new 'thinking' to be applied... it's all old news and there's absolutely no means for them to succeed, unless we allow them to re-invent the players... which is all the left has ever done. That's how we ended up with Socialists, Progressives, Fascists, Communists, Liberals... and so on... THEY FAIL AND NEED TO RE-LABLE THEMSELVES TO ISOLATE THEMSELVES FROM THEIR OWN FAILURE.
They're not relableing us... Our system works... it works well, it succeeds everywhere it is tried and has yet to deomonstrate a single failure anywhere.