>controlling aspects of other people's lives that don't affect others[...]opposition to two people of the same sex being married, which is purely their business

>controlling aspects of other people's lives that don't affect others[...]opposition to two people of the same sex being married, which is purely their business. It is blowing my mind that you can write this immediately following a massive national controversy over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the ability of religious businesses to decline service to same-sex marriages. >some moralists simply oppose change as a kind of moral. Conservatives argue that a working society is an accumulation of attributes that have stood the test of time and reached a stable equilibrium with each other, and that making even small changes have to be carefully examined because small changes can have large repercussions. There are congenital flaws in conservative thinking with regard to how and when you recognize change is finally needed, but the principle is a lot more sane than the other extreme.