Re: Conservatives and Liberals
Ok, let's take any of those issues and debate them. Or any others you can think of...Let's take a couple of them....<br />Abortion---Why would you assume that a woman cannot make a reasonable rational decision about what she does with her own body? Why do you think she is not smart enough, or whatever enough, to make her own decisions. I thought conservatives wanted the government out of our personal lives, and as least intrusive as possible.<br />Personally, I am against abortion, and would argue against it with anyone that asks me. Where I draw the line is legally imposing my personal view to anyone else, as I don't want others making my personal decisions, and don't feel qualified to make them for others.<br />If you want to make rules about viability, I can live with that, although I would rather have a doctor at the scene make the life or death decisions affecting my life, rather than some politician in Washington, all things considered.<br /><br />Gay marriage...There are gays in this world, and some of them want to enter into mainstream society by committing to a legally binding union. How can that possibly affect you? And why, in this land of the free, do you feel compelled to legally discriminate against a specific group of people <br /><br />Now marriage to some is a religious event but to some it is not. It is certainly not right to force some preacher to perform this ceremony, but that is why we have granted the ability to perform marriages to judges and ship captains and the like.<br /><br />Marriage may or may not be a religious ceremony, but it is always a legal one. That is why divorces cannot be performed by clergy, but must be handled by judges. There are no compelling arguments, except religious ones, why gay marriages should not happen.<br /><br />You should be allowed, in this country, to follow the religion of your choice. You are not allowed to compel others to comply with your religion.
