What I do not understand about the conservative ideology

[Felix_Nietsche]

.....facts are the liberals aren't that great about personal freedom either. But don't believe me. Just look at the recent supreme court rulings from the liberal judges. However if you want to maximize your freedom then supporting conservatives is the way to go.

So why do they often oppose the side that would seem to support "limited government" on other issues, like legalization of marijuana, lower legal age for drinking/gambling, assisted/attempted suicide, censorship, abortion, gay marriage, and sodomy, among othes?
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1. Marijuana - What have liberals done to legalize MJ? In the recent California Medical Marijuana case all the judges that dissented were conservative. All the liberal judges supported the federal ban on medical marijuana. Perhaps you should be criticizing liberals instead.
2. Censorship - Care to provide any examples. There is a lot of hot air from liberals claiming censorship but I am not aware of any.
3. Suicide-I don't think it is the govt business. In the catholic faith they are taught this is a sin. I would argue it is mostly catholic politicians (liberal and conservative) that try to legislate restrictions on suicice.
4. Gay marriage - The last I heard is gays are free to marry people of the opposite sex. Just like anyone else. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
5. Sodomy laws - These are laws which have been on the books for up to 200 years and they are almost never enforced. Occasionally some cop uses this archaic law to punish a homosexual. I'd focus my attention on the cop and the DA that prosecutes arather than conservative lawmakers.

[HighStakesPro]

I am opining about specific policy issues and how they are addressed by the liberal and conservative ideology. I am NOT defending or questioning the actions of any specific politicians or judges who are presumed to represent liberalism or conservatism. In particular I'm trying to AVOID a "liberals vs conservatives" argument and focus on the more relavent question of liberalism vs conservatism.

1. The reason that some issues like legalizing marijuana and the legal drinking/gambling age are not discussed at length in political circles or in congress is because they simply don't affect a great number of people, so politicians have virtually nothing to gain by taking a hardline stance on them or passing legislation to change the current laws.

Sorry, there is more to add to this post but I am dead tired right now. Later I will respond to the person who quoted my stated belief about the purpose of government.