We Abandon Social Conservatism at Our Own Peril

Oct 11, 2016 by

by Carlos D Flores, Public Discourse:

Fiscal conservativism cannot exist without social conservatism. Strong families form the foundation of healthy societies and strong economies.

In the current election cycle, social conservatism seems to have lost no matter who ends up being elected president. After all, of the possible future presidents, who is poised to defend social conservatism?

Hillary Clinton? Obviously not. Clinton promotes child dismemberment and is wholly on board with the LGBT agenda and all its projects: forcing women and girls to share a restroom with men who believe they are women, using the force of law to destroy the lives of bakers who refuse to use their skills to celebrate same-sex weddings, peddling a mistaken vision of marriage, and further destroying the sexual norms that make marriage possible.

“Libertarian” candidate Gary Johnson? Hardly. Johnson has demonstrated that there is not a libertarian bone in his body, claiming as he does that bakers who object to baking a cake for a same-sex wedding ought to be punished by the state. In fact, Johnson ludicrously claimed that a Jewish baker ought to be forced to bake a cake for a Nazi celebration should a Nazi ask him to do so. Johnson, when he is not busy drugging himself, asserts that he is wholly on board the abortion bandwagon. His position on abortion is, unfortunately, almost indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton’s.

What about Donald Trump? There are some reasons to be somewhat optimistic. Trump does give lip service to the pro-life cause, and the Republican Party’s platform is, surprisingly, still socially conservative. Alas, Trump’s record on abortion and same-sex marriage is, well, spotty. This leads social conservatives like me to believe that Trump is either not socially conservative or that he simply does not care about the topic. All things considered, Trump is better than Clinton and Johnson on this matter, but that isn’t saying much.

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