"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> At 10:21 PM 1/14/2004 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
> >> At 06:54 PM 1/14/2004 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote:
> >> >That makes sense. To what extent do you regard conservatives, as a
> >> >generalization, as male-dominated?
> >>
> >> In all honesty none.
> >>
> >> I can say with a clear conscience that I have never ever made that
> >> connection in my mind before.
> >
> >You really aren't familiar with Evangelicals, then. I don't know how many
> >of them told me that women need to obey their husbands.
>
> Oh come on.... of course I am familiar with Evangelicals. I just don't
> think "Evangelical" as my first, second, or even third thought when I think
> "conservative."
>
> When I think of conservatives, I think of the Carmen - who was the
> President of College Republicans at my university - a school where there
> are two guys for every girl.
>
> When I think of conservatives, I think of the writers at _The National
> Review_, who prominently employ writers like Kate O'Beirne, Kathryn Lopez,
> and Florence King.
>
> When I think of conservatives, I think of people who support lower taxes,
> less government spending, cutting government regulation, and ending abortion.
>
> I don't think of those who say that wives need to obey their husbands, (and
> that husbands need to serve their wives.)
There are regional differences, and you haven't lived in a region of the
country where there are a lot of evangelicals and those evangelicals are
strongly identified with "conservatives".
On the next-to-the-last paragraph I quote above, remove the abortion
part of it, and you're describing what I think of as a libertarian.
Julia
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