It's gotten to the point where "Traditional" is starting to be a disgusting concept to me.
I've only ever heard it in two situations, either "We want you to act exactly like us, because our parents did it," which is absurd on the face of it. Or just a code-word for anti-queer. :I
I'm starting to think that liberals do something because it works (ie. gay people raising adopted children, because otherwise you have millions of children without homes) and conservatives do something because... they did it 60 years ago? I.E. Gays can't get married or raise children, despite a) you having no right to tell people how to be happy, and b) there is no evidence that gay-raised children are at ALL worse off than straight-raised, b) it's absurd on the face of it for gay parents to raise gay children (straight people don't always raise straight children
) and d) even if it was a little worse for gay-raised children, it's a LOT worse for children to not be raised by parents -at all-, and those are your two choices. Pick one.
There are other examples of the "Do something because it works/makes sense/doesn't hurt to try" and the "Do something because we always did it that way," dichotomy, like public healthcare/tuition or regulating polluting industries.
Pretty sure that's what "conservative" means anyways