Conservatism

Conservatism is a funny thing. Liberalism is a funny term, not quite descriptive. Conservatism is just a funny thing I think. The word conservative implies a hesitation; an action towards the impeding of progress. This has to be a bad idea every once in while right? Is it good to be conservative about shoes, underwear, marriage? Certainly progress is required in certain areas of life. (I appreciate redundancy). As Christians, should we be conservative about sanctification? If all I have done up to this point is point out the need for clarification of what one means when he/she says she is conservative, then I can live with that. Generally though I find myself wanting to talk about most things issue by issue seeing the subjective nature of calling oneself conservative, or labeling oneself in any case. Besides when it comes to authority of Scripture, God Himself seems to be very conservative, which is why we can take Him for a liberal when it comes to answering prayers for wisdom? Not to mention that Paul took the liberal position in Romans when He suggested that rebellion was the cause of homosexual relations. At this point homosexuality had been a normal Mediterranean practice for years.