What’s more, they think that those who disagree with them ought “to imprisoned—not to be debated, to be locked up on criminal charges and imprisoned,” said the citing stray calls from the right to “arrest abortion-breast cancer link deniers.”
Except no conservative has ever suggested such a thing.
The sexual/economic license contrast you make is more on point. It can seem weird to a conservative that some liberal who is concerned with setting policies that deal with how many calories people eat, or what kind of lightbulb people use, can be so adamantly hands off when it comes to sex. And it can seem weird to a liberal that a conservative who talks about small government is so focused on getting government out of the economy but doesn't seem to give certain invasions of privacy or restrictions on sexual autonomy a second thought.
