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Hawkish libertarian: Instapundit
Anyways, SD, your views on what a conservative is is kind of odd. I wouldn't say that all of them don't advocate separation of church and state at all levels of government;
I did not say that all conservatives are against the constitutional principle of a separation of church and state. However, I would imagine that most do not take the liberal and libertarian views on it. Just look through the archives on this forum when the subject has came up before, and you will notice that most self identified conservatives on here were against federal court rulings that banned religious monuments in courthouses and other government buildings.
I also think that many social conservatives - probably most, really - would be fine with leaving social issues to the state level.
Then why have they fought them at the national level for so long then? Even if they could be convinced to simply pursue these issues at the state and local level, they would still inevitably come into conflict with liberals and libertarians because even if your using the state government to promote, endorse, or compel religious beliefs, or to legislate morality, you are still trying to use the government to further a religious agenda or legislate morality. Thus, liberals and libertarians are still going to take to the federal courts, and its thus you are back to trying to fight this at the national level.
Right now you have Texas Social Conservatives trying to use the state's public school system to further their evangelical Christian beliefs. Even though those social conservatives are working at the state level, do you honestly think that it wont eventually be litigated in the federal court system?
And libertarians do sometimes disagree with conservatives when it comes to privacy and religious issues, but that is as ambiguous as I said everthing but drugs and gay marriage is.
Privacy and a separation of church and state are core to civil liberties, its not something that will be glossed over.