Why do conservatives always want to force their values on everybody else?

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This article is from the Conservatism FAQ, by Jim Kalb kalb@aya.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.

Why do conservatives always want to force their values on everybody else?

Conservatives aren't different from other people in that regard.
Anyone with a notion of how society should work will believe that
other people should follow the program he favors. For example, if
Liberal Jack thinks the government should be responsible for the
well-being of children and wants to support the arrangement through a system of supervision, record-keeping and taxation that sends people to jail who don't comply, and Conservative Jill thinks there should be family responsibility supported by a system of sex roles enforced by informal social sanctions, each will want what the public schools teach to be consistent with his program.

Both will object to a school textbook entitled "Heather Has Two
Mommies Who Get Away with Paying No Taxes Because They Accept Payment Only in Cash." Liberal Jack will object to the book "Heather's Mommy Stays Home and Her Daddy Goes to the Office," while Conservative Jill will object to other well-known texts. Even Libertarian Jerry might have some problems with "Heather and Her Whole Family Organize to Fight for Daycare and against Welfare Reductions." There is no obvious reason to consider any of the three more tolerant than the others.

At present, the issue of social tolerance comes up most often in
connection with sexual morality. For a discussion from a conservative perspective, see the Sexual Morality FAQ,
http://turnabout.ath.cx:8000/node/6.