Re: The Backroom Predefined Positions Thread
Wanting people to plainly state their beliefs and ideas? This would never fly in American politics.
*Abortion - Protected as it should be by due-process law. Morally wrong for me. Stem cells are not needed, we have ton, but there is money in "them there hills" for the abortion establishment. Besides stem cells have not offered us anything yet and the same stem cell research can be done with ambiotic cells.
*Capital Punishment - Against. Philosophically, morally, and logically cannot be defended. I did try really hard for years to be pro CP. The argument that what if somebody deliberately and with malice harmed my child. If the circumstances were so great to call for capital punishment, I'd probably kill them myself out of vengeance. This is all CP is for, satisfying the taste for vengeance on our behalf.
*Drugs - sure, legalize it all and let Darwin sort them out. However, no tax dollars derived from anything should be spent on de-tox or help. If you don't want the government to protect you, then it shouldn't free you from responsibility and consequences.
*Evolution - Evolution is a fact and does not kill God.
*Gays - Whatever floats a person's boat. The only problem I have with the gay community is the asking for their rights to be legislated. Any serious law student or individual who has studied law knows that codifying a behavior which supposedly results from biology is extremely dangerous.
*Gun Control - Mandatory sentences. Get rid of the right to bear arms and the same arbitrary basis for getting rid of the interstate commerce clause or right and proper clauses exists.
*Immigration - Legal immigration. However if martians show up packing little green uzi's and start mounting my cattle...I'll probably shoot them, whether they applied for a green card or not.
*Media Content - The great philosopher poet Dirty Ol Bastard once said, "gotta get the creame, dolla dolla bills yall". Every media outlet out there is motivated by money. You never get the whole truth from any one source, but thankfully we have this organ called a brain and most of us are taught how to use it via reasoning so we can gather from more than one source and decide for ourselves. Not to long ago there was a poll which showed 30% of Americans don't believe any given news outlet is biased...of course a separate poll showed 30% of Americans believe in flying saucers.
*Military in General - Strong military, all volunteer. Military spending is about right for us atm. We are lower then we have been in years in relation to the GDP and rank somewhere in the twenties, I think, globally in percentage.
*Prostitution - Legalize and regulate. "Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace," St. Thomas Aquinas. "Do away with the cesspool, and the palace will become an unclean and stinking place."
*Race and Racism - Small minds must have refuge somewhere at least their easy to spot when they exhibit prejudice, and that goes in all directions.
*Separation of Church and State - My chuch is my church, my state is my state.
*The Rise of China and India - As soon as they can stop killing 40,000 people per industrial accident and prove they can feed their population past 2040, I'll get concerned.
*The War on Terror - See St. Thomas Aquinas, RE: prostitution, above.
*Welfare - Limited terms of enrollment when not based upon physical or mental disability. Local charity really needs to step up here people, if somebody needs help give them help and tell them they are worth helping. The idea of distancing yourself from not only those in need but the reasons they are in need by delegating "care" to a governmental or some huge charitable organization is going to ruin society.
*Your religious beliefs - Lutheran, but a student of all. I hate to quote from St. Thomas Aquinas again, but "beware the man of one book."
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