This is generally what makes me so (*)(*)(*)(*) opposed to conservatism. I see eye to eye with them on economic issues most of the time. I agree with them on some social issues. I don't like their assaults on personal and civil liberties, but at least understand their concerns and appreciate their morality. I can even occasionally see their point on foreign policy...
But there's something really odd about defining freedom and EDUCATION on the basis of keeping things away.
Freedom, rather than the ability to speak your mind, is the ability to keep others from speaking their mind AROUND MY CHILDREN. Education is best if it hides information that I DON'T WANT MY CHILDREN TO KNOW.
No talk of gay historical figures or gay families- things that EXIST... but we need talk of Intelligent Design as a scientific concept, something IT IS NOT?!
No talk of anything the country ever may have done wrong... or even the idea of how some might see it that way. Any talk of a side that the mode doesn't get, just the fact that the topic is brought up... is a sgin of a liberal bias... But when we decide we need to verbally assault a minority group in the crudest and most ignorant terms possible, when we must try to push a theological concept into the definition of science... That's just to BALANCE THINGS!!!
AAAAAARRGGH!!!!
Conservatives give me a migraine! How am I supposed to tell off the little socialists and social engineers that infest my own ideological group when I'm faced with this psychopathic backwardness from the other side of the spectrum?!

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside