I’ve been reading some of your posts and while you seem like an OK guy, you are clearly not a conservative. You said on one post that you agree with David Brooks and David Frum more than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Brooks and Frum are not conservatives. I actually like and respect Maureen Dowd and James Carville more than those two elitist snobs. You also have written posts that encourage conservatives to embrace gay marriage because the 18-34 demographic favors it. I’m in that demographic and most of my friends voted for Obama. However, most of them are with the Republicans on the homo issue. You claim to be a christian yet equate bigotry against gays as equivalent to bigotry against blacks, Italians, Catholics,etc. However, being black or Italian isn’t a sin. You say that nobody should be forced to see their natural condition as evil, but that is the essence of christianity. Our natural condition is evil and can only be overcome through faith in Christ.
“I’ve been reading some of your posts and while you seem like an OK guy, you are clearly not a conservative. You said on one post that you agree with David Brooks and David Frum more than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Brooks and Frum are not conservatives. I actually like and respect Maureen Dowd and James Carville more than those two elitist snobs. You also have written posts that encourage conservatives to embrace gay marriage because the 18-34 demographic favors it. I’m in that demographic and most of my friends voted for Obama. However, most of them are with the Republicans on the homo issue. You claim to be a christian yet equate bigotry against gays as equivalent to bigotry against blacks, Italians, Catholics,etc. However, being black or Italian isn’t a sin. You say that nobody should be forced to see their natural condition as evil, but that is the essence of christianity. Our natural condition is evil and can only be overcome through faith in Christ.”
I am for limited government, the lowest taxes needed to sustain the most basic government needed, i.e., to defend liberty and uphold constitutional rights, for the absolute LEAST amount of regulation needed to maintain orderly capitalism, against abortion in any way, shape or form, for an aggressive foreign policy to root out terrorism in all forms, a return to state and local control of education and vehement supporter of school vouchers, against anything that even resembles affirmative action as it is reverse discrimination, an absolute government hands off libertarian stance on the rights of the people to own and carry firearms according to the rights spelled out in the 2nd Amendment....I could go on and on.
But because I am not with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on the “homo issue”, you want to run me out of the party in your quest to purge and purify? You need to read my posts more carefully because I never forwarded the position that homosexuality is a moral way to live or a sinful way to live. I leave the theological implications of those things to others. My point was a political point clear and simple.
But as I stated before, if you want to purge me out of the party because I am not with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on your presumption of my alleged position on the “homo issue”.....then that is f&cking ridiculous.
Sorry for the language but the emphasis is needed here. And anyone that refers to gay issues as the “homo issue” and then claims to be a Chrisitian has the word HYPOCRITE stamped on their forehead. Treat all with dignity, love and respect first as Christ would. Loving others doesn’t mean you have to give them rights to gay marriage, but it does mean that demeaning them with the words like “homo” is the antithesis of Christian theology.
The irony is that you see me as a danger to the party. It is people like you that are reactionary without taking a sober and rational approach to political maneuvering that are shaking others out of a party down to a size that will leave us with a permananent and irrelevant minority in Congress and with no shot at the Executive.
I agree with 90% of the conservative platform but I raise a question regarding the political implications of opposing gay marriage and you immediately scream HOMO SYMPATHIZER and want me out.
That is simply irrational and dangerous to the future of our Republic because those attitudes shrink our role in Washington and the economic and social liberalization of this country marches on with greater fervor and less hindrance that would otherwise be there in the form of a strong Republican opposition.