Social conservatives trying to conscript government?

Conservative George Will argues in his latest column that social conservatives and fiscal big spenders are undermining the GOP. Here is his take on “zealots” on school boards:
‘ “It does me no injury,” said Thomas Jefferson, “for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ But it is injurious, and unneighborly, when zealots try to compel public education to infuse theism into scientific education. The conservative coalition, which is coming unglued for many reasons, will rapidly disintegrate if limited-government conservatives become convinced that social conservatives are unwilling to concentrate their character-building and soul-saving energies on the private institutions that mediate between individuals and government, and instead try to conscript government into sectarian crusades.”
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

7 Comments

  1. writerdog
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 2:41 am | Permalink

    The world is coming to an end! I agree with Wills for the first time in over a year!

  2. Joe Williams
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 5:00 am | Permalink

    Will and I think alike.

  3. Galahad
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 8:51 am | Permalink

    This is how the melt-down of the right starts. The George Wills start arguing with the Cal Thomas’s.

    Pass the popcorn. This is going to get good.

  4. Jed
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 9:56 am | Permalink

    Galahad,You can have the popcorn if I can have the binoculars! This is going to be a conflict best observed at great distance!

  5. XXX
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 11:26 am | Permalink

    Yeah, the stench will be terrible!

  6. J M Walker
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 11:30 am | Permalink

    George Will has, for the most part, been a moderate. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I disagree with him. He is definetely no dummy.

    On this subject, I totally agree with him. It’s the only position that makes sense.

  7. Jed
    Posted November 19, 2005 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

    XXX,So will the shrapnel!