Why We Hate Conservatives

The Hypocrisy of Legislating Morality

This so-called Defense of Marriage Act reads: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." It is literally a ban on homosexual marriage, enacted through the linguistic trickery of "defining" marriage as something other than a legal union representing an existing spiritual bond founded on love and mutual commitment between two individuals.

But, "Allowed"? Conservatives are in an uproar over people being "allowed" to do something that has absolutely nothing to do with them (but happens to conflict with their "values")?

This effort to legislate personal values - by the same people who say they believe in the right of the individual to choose for him or her self - is far from the only instance where Conservatives strive to enforce their mores on everyone. Conservatives, in general, also want to ban abortions, ban drug use, ban pornography, and ban all manner of other things that are absolutely none of their business. Whether you agree with these positions or not, you have to admit that they are nothing less than efforts to restrict the freedom of individuals, and thereby legislate personal choices.

In all fairness, many of those issues, like drug use, do go to matters of safety for the hapless participant. But having matters of morality, like gay marriage, dictated to us by the same people who oppose the restriction of firearms, on the grounds that it infringes on personal liberty, is a tough pill to swallow.

I like to call this kind of contradiction "hypocrisy".

It is a paradox that the group that claims to value individual liberty above society as a whole would then turn around and use oh-so-loathed "I know what's best for you better than you do" laws to tell all of us what is immoral (not "unsafe" or "unfair" or "unjust", but "immoral"). It goes beyond arrogance for these same people to actually participate in the enactment of a law that does absolutely nothing but take away the rights of others, as we saw in California.

These people, who say that it is not the place of government to take away their rights, are actively using government to take away other peoples' rights. It flies in the face of "liberty and justice for all", and puts the lie to their "core values".

Where Liberals might hate themselves for hating others who practice hatred (see Why We Hate Liberals), Conservatives seemingly hate everyone who doesn't share their personal values. And they're out to fix it - by giving you no choice but to conform.