Quote:Conservatives are actually more about government staying out of marriage all together.  Let the state, and individual churches and other institutions determine the definition of marriage, not the state.  

 

Marriage licenses were the byproduct of progressives controlling who married whom in order to prevent mixed race marriages going back 150 years or so.  Progressives want to add more government intervention into marriage in order to force the issue on gay marriage when the reality is government should just stay out of it all together.

 

A perfect example of how social issues matter so much to progressives is the fact that they are pushing so hard to elect the first woman president.  It's more important to elect based on gender or race than it is to elect someone who is capable and qualified.

 

I'm not saying social issues aren't important to conservatives.  I'm simply saying that they don't rate as highly on the list of concerns for those on the right than they do for those on the left who are all about identity politics.