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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:52 AM Mar 2013

The Culture War Was Never a Fair Fight: Liberty is murdering virtue. (& Its About Time!!!)

The Culture War Was Never a Fair Fight

Matt Lewis: "Social conservatives are greatly outnumbered (a byproduct of having lost the culture war argument). We hear a lot about the supposed 'three-legged-stool' of the conservative movement, but in fighting the culture war, social conservatives are on their own. In fact, it's wrong to think of this in terms of a left versus right paradigm. It would be better understood as part of the continuing struggle between virtue (as social conservatives define it) and liberty (defined by our modern secular society to mean the freedom to do whatever we want). In that light, liberty is murdering virtue.



Love THIS, much more:
http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/241871/the-culture-war-was-never-a-fair-fight#
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The Culture War Was Never a Fair Fight: Liberty is murdering virtue. (& Its About Time!!!) (Original Post) kpete Mar 2013 OP
This may be a bit off-topic Cirque du So-What Mar 2013 #1

Cirque du So-What

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1. This may be a bit off-topic
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:02 AM
Mar 2013

but so-called conservatives and libertarians seem far more concerned with 'liberty' as it relates to corporations instead of individuals. I see a struggle, but it's between liberty and equality, and in this struggle, I always come down on the side of equality.

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