I'm A Christian Conservative Who DOESN'T Hate Everyone Or Ram My Religion Down Peoples Throats AMA

How do you reconcile current conservative approaches to the poor (reducing/removing any benefits, sending unhoused people on busses to other States, etc.) with the teachings of Jesus in the testament? There is a clear disconnect between these two sets of ideals.

Gods, if I wanted to be at an AMA where the host refuses to answer questions, I'd re-read the Woody Harrelson one on Reddit.

How do you feel about women making decisions about their own reproductive health?

If you don’t think women should be allowed to have abortions, how do you reconcile that with the goal of “not ramming your religion down other people’s throats”?

If you do think women should be allowed to have abortions, are you really a Christian conservative?

How can you be comfortable identifying as a conservative Christian, seeing what conservative Christians do to LGBTQ+ people?

I think everyone is different honestly. I don't think just because someone is a conservative (like myself) that they incorporate the 'old school' Christian beliefs. Such as being against gays.

It's 2023 and ppl are understanding how times have changed.

I myself, and several others, don't care if gays get married or have children and so forth. We're not against that.

I also don't think gay ppl are bad, they are normal ppl. And if you think about it, Jesus wants you to love everyone and not have a heart full of hate.
- But if you’re voting republican, you are voting for people who do believe in those things. They are also working to punish them every chance they get.
- As a self-identifying conservative Christian you must be aware that almost all antagonism towards LGBTQ+ people comes from your churches, your leaders, and your peers.
  
  And not just gay people. Trans people are even more in the "culture war" crosshairs, and are just as important a part of the queer community.
  
  Do you disagree with your church and your leaders about this? If so, how can you continue to self-identify as a conservative Christian, knowing what your identification supports?
- Are you OP using an alt account?

What is your opinion on the barriers between church and state being actively eroded by conservative christians?

So I can give you a better answer, regarding what specifically?
- “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church…I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk.” Boebert

OP, are you and PrettyBlackDress the same person?

Assuming so, from what you've said in this thread, it seems from what you've said that you're at least pro-choice, pro-lgbtq+, and pro-separation-of-church-and-state.

So, my question is, "in what sense exactly are you "conservative"?

They identify as conservative because all they want is to fit in with the local "in group" and actively refuse to see if they actually maintain anything that could be referred to as a "standard"
Not op. Before 2016 republicans could be broken down as being fiscally conservative, socially conservative, or both. The person you described above is a fiscal conservative. Republicans are now more fascist then conservative.
- They drove out the blue-dog republicans years before.
  
  It is nice that there is a specific year, though, that we can point at for when the moderates lost plausible deniability when it comes to being enablers of the far right.

Posting history of OP clearly shows them to be a troll who gets off on creating posts with controversial headlines. Please stop feeding it (and also please stop believing everything you read on the internet).

What is your position on taxing churches?

I'm down for it. I don't see why they shouldn't be paying

Can you elaborate on the ways in which you are "conservative?" That's a broad term that means different things to different people and in different contexts.

Financially conservative: you avoid debt and speculative investments? Religiously conservative: you favor old-fashioned Latin rite Catholicism rather than post-Vatican II Catholicism or more modern Protestant traditions? Socially conservative: you support strict criminal punishments, heavy restrictions on booze/weed/gambling, and censorship of foul language or violence in media? Or maybe you don't fall neatly into any of those "conservative" stereotypes?

Ah you beat me to it and worded it better. Op has to be financially and religious conservative based on their responses.

closeted liberal, seems to be the consensus opinion. there's a lot of social pressure to adopt an identity even if it doesn't reflect your actual values.

How do you justify enabling the worst impulses of Conservatives?

Does fitting in with the wives of your husbands work friends get tiring?

Does it get tiring making excuses for the transphobia of the people you like hanging out with?

YOU don't ram your religion down other people's throats.

What the hell are you doing to keep your family in Christ from doing the same?

Are you whining about being lumped in with them? Or, are you trying to get them to smarten up?

How bad are the fleas from the dogs you lay down with?

Edit: He said AMA and there aren't that many comments. Why didn't he respond?