| My politics....
I find myself on the liberal side of things when referring to using religious or "ethical"(codeword for religious undertones) rules that everyone has to obey, no matter what their religious background. I'm one of those people who DOESN'T get his panties in a bundle when someone questions why "Under God" was ADDED to the pledge of allegiance. It's a fair question.
Marriage, abortion, etc: If you don't like how some people live their life, fine. But just think if those people were the majority and forced you through law to live their way.
It's not black and white, but for the most part, I'm fairly liberal on those types of issues. On everything else, I'm conservative (fiscially). I don't want the government to spend money on much of anything. Fewer laws, fewer rules, fewer programs, etc. LESS international involvement, military (doesn't sound to conservative to me to spend billions on a war we didn't need to be in), etc.
Gun control?
Kinda devided on this. If you are an upstanding citizen, you should be allowed to buy, own, modify and shove up your ass any gun you want (within reason, explosives, etc). I mean guns that can be safely controlled by one person. Machine guns are included in this subset. I also have no problem with a waiting period or background check. If you are in a rush to buy a gun, perhaps you shouldn't be buying this gun.
Also, NO favoritism, funding, helping, etc for ANY religious organization. No tax breaks either. No non-profit status. It IS for profit, just not in a monetary way (for most part). We have more churches in my town that have larger buildings and take up more space than any other business catagory/school system/public benefit entity. If people can drive half an hour to go to a mall, they sure as hell can close down some of these churches and consolidate. It IS a business. They just deal in people, not money. If there is an organization that is a faith based entity that does good and wishes to remain non-profit, all they have to do is loose the "official" affiliation with a church. So all the members are one faith, who cares? As long as they welcome other faith and non-faith members, they can keep their non-profit status.
And that's all i have to say about that for now.  |