Title: What Are Conservative Values? | HuffPost
Headings: What Are Conservative Values?
What Are Conservative Values?
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Content: Conservatives, it seems, are the ones who are most concerned about which bathroom a transgender person; Conservatives are the ones wanting to cut funding for Medicaid, which enables poor, primarily women, get health care. Conservatives are in favor of cutting food stamp allotments, who are more interested in funding mass incarceration rather than public education. Download
From my vantage point, “Conservative” values, using the Bible as justification, includes a fair amount of racism, sexism, homophobia and Islamophobia. To be a “true” conservative, one must be anti-abortion (I say it that way because clearly, what anti-abortionists support is only the life of an unborn fetus, not the child after it has been born.) A Conservative believes in limited government, states’ rights, and prefers that federal money be spent on building and maintaining the military, rather than on “entitlement” programs and other domestic programs that improve the lives of American citizens. Overtly in the South, but certainly practiced in the North as well, ministers like Rev. Douglas Hudgins preached “a gospel that strengthened and renewed the underpinnings of racial subordination,” according to DuPont. ( p. 120) Rev. Hudgins and others encouraged “Christian America” (which for him meant white Christians) to resist the federal government. The Conservative value he sought to emphasize was states’ rights: the federal government had overreached in supporting the goals of the Civil Rights activists.