Conservatives like to contrast what they see as a Confucian stress on social harmony and moral rectitude with the West's emphasis on individual rights.

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Moral conservatives on the right of the party have savaged pro-abortion-rights candidates in primary battles, sometimes even resorting to lawsuits.

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Sunday's forum, which will be held at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, will allow each candidate to speak for 40 minutes on various moral issues, including poverty, global AIDS, climate change and human rights.

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But the upside surprises of creativity require a low entropy environment of predictable property rights, taxes and other business laws ultimately based on trust in a moral order.

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The choice for those who truly care, is either to stand passively by on the edge of a very slippery slope and watch legitimate rights continually eroded by floods of activists claiming moral superiority and ever-expanding executive privilege, or to stand defiantly, and aggressively defend them on sound legal grounds.

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