Ya know  the bible nutters  the dominionists have the same sort of reasoning. God gave this to us to do what we want.

My view  is  if there is a God    I think the contract says we are to tend the garden and help nurture it,  not claim dominion over it and ravage it.

My mother is a conservative . Not one of the new far right breed but a conservative none the less.

She automatically went into attack mode when the Dept of Natural Resources stopped construction of a small subdivision because the property was deemed a wetland and had protected status.

She rattled off the standard stuff on page 4 of the Republican hand book.  The goverment goes to far. That land is privately owned they should be able to do what they want. The developers rights where usurped and on it went.

its like the brains shuts down and goes into automatic mode. The response is the same one that every Republican in her age group would say almost to the word. Its like they are all stepford wives.

Rights before whats right seems to be the motto.  

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time