• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    like opposition to gay marriage and abortion, has historically always been part of conservatism

    Speaking for the poster, probably incorrectly, but while I consider myself liberal, and have long been a support of gay rights and marriage, I always laughed when I was defending it (like early 2000) because I was always making the conservative argument that the government shouldn’t be regulating which two consenting adults can join a contract with each other.

    Classically speaking, it’s a politically conservative position. It’s just that republicans, who pretend to be conservatives, also tend to be religious and let those beliefs often influence what they claim is the conservative position.

    But the state staying out of who gets married is, no doubt, an actual politically conservative position.