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Originally posted by widebody911
Funny, that's the same thing you conservatives said about fire, the wheel, abolition, civil rights, women's suffrage...
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I don't think conservatives as a whole were ever against any of those causes. I have to believe that most of the leaders of those causes would probably be conservative in today's political climate.
Abortion and gay rights, for two of the most divisive examples, do not share the dignity afforded abolition, civil rights, women's suffrage, etc. Those were quite noble causes. I don't think liberals can claim them as their own, but that is altogether a different argument.
Liberals today have adopted some very dubious causes, and are attempting to lft them to the same level as those examples you cited. There is a fundemental difference between the choice made to abort, or the choice to be gay, and the lack of choice in being a woman, a minority, or any other formerly oppressed group. Most folks outside of, or on the fringes of liberalism recognize the difference.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; it's their (liberals') innability to understand this difference that has driven middle America away from the core of liberalism. Like Randy says, they have adopted every fringe lunatic minority special interest group there is.