Blogs For Victory

Video from C-Span:

Congressman West completely answers the arguments against conservatism – including those made by part of conservatism, Libertarianism, which is imagining a conservative movement which is ok with abortion and gay marriage. The thing won’t work unless we’re defending the Judeo-Christian civilization. If we’re not doing that then whatever else we’re doing, conservatism isn’t it.

I realize that our Libertarian friends are both feeling their oats – having developed this idea that social issues are unimportant or, at least, secondary – and, also, getting downright annoyed with all that muscular Christianity popping up here, there and everywhere. But that is just the nature of a truly conservative movement. There is room for libertarianism – in fact, it is a necessary element in conservatism to prevent Christianity from degenerating in to Puritanism, or Prohibition. But mark this fact and never forget it – libertarianism cannot survive in a non-Christian civilization and Christian civilization will not have – cannot have – gay marriage and abortion (along with a score or so other things, but those two are most important – and abortion vastly most important of all; just not so much emphasized at the moment as the pro-life view is clearly ascendant in the United States today).

We are winning this battle – America, in my view, will be preserved as the political bulwark of civilization just as the Church (in spite of relentless efforts to destroy her) remains as the spiritual bulwark. There is much for all people of good will to do – and there is a lot we can do to accommodate the peculiar notions of some (while we can’t have gay marriage, there can be provisions made for those sincere gay people who do wish to tie their fortunes to another for life). All of those who abhor the Statist left should be united – because the victory of the left is the defeat of conservatism and libertarianism.