I believe we should profile. Why waste resources on some sick P-C across the board BS when simple statistics tells us where our scarce resources can best be applied. I believe we should secure the border. Not because I dislike Mexicans or Hispanics in any way. I believe we should secure our border because it is a border. It is a simple matter of national security. If these beliefs make me a "racist" in your eyes, so be it. That's the nice thing about living in a free Country - you are free to think that about me, no-one is trying to tell you what to think or not think. So please don't try to tell me what to think or not think.
I believe in equality of the sexes, however I also recognize that there are differences. (and I celebrate them! ;-) I have no problem with women serving on police forces, fire companies, and in the military - provided they can meet the same job requirements as the men in those roles. The requirements are dictated by the job, not by some idealistic dream that anyone should be able to do anything. We can't. If women are going to do the same job, with the same responsibilities, compensation, and risks, they have to meet the same requirements. If that makes me sexist in your eyes, so be it. I don't care, all your labels for me are meaningless in the face of cold hard facts.
I believe sex should be a heterosexual thing. That is the natural order. Go ahead, cite 10% or 15% percent of the population being homosexual or bisexual or some other deviation from the norm. That is why it is rightly called deviant behavior. Go ahead, dig up a few examples from the animal kingdom where some species at some time display homosexual behaviors. Again, that does not change the simple, irrefutable fact that such behavior is deviant from the norm. There is absolutely no reason to promote it or justify it. Deviant is deviant, there is nothing about this that makes it any more respectable than any other forms of deviant behavior. If that makes me a homophobe in your eyes, so be it. I don't care - part of that freedom and liberty thing again. I know I have truth on my side, and so do you, else you wouldn't be fighting so hard to try to convince everyone otherwise.
I believe in religious freedom. Next to the right to live/exist, nothing else is as important as the right to believe what we choose, and follow the belief system that we feel called to. In that light, I have no particular beef with Muslims. I believe they have just as much right to follow their religious beliefs as any other religion. However, that presupposes they recognize a similar right - that others have the right to their own belief systems. Given the rise of "radical Islam" and the "convert or die" mentality therein, and their war on the west... I no-longer trust any Muslims. Unless and until these killers, terrorists, and radicals are publicly and widely denounced as non-Muslim, and their public and private support is cut off, all Muslims are suspect of tacit support of "radical Islam's" war against, well, everyone else with us at the top of the list. I also believe the "ground zero mosque" has nothing to do with religion or outreach and everything to do with saving/recovering face by the Muslims by claiming a victory at (or very near) the sight of their most successful attack in recent history. The very idea is an affront and should have never been proposed, except as an insult and an attempt to further attack the US. If this makes me an “Islamaphobe” in your eyes, so be it. Muslims have, by their actions and inaction, earned this mistrust and suspicion of motives. It will take years, perhaps decades of work on their part to reverse this perception. We do not have to meet them in the middle, they have to stop their war on us and come to us.
So go ahead liberal media, "enlightened" elitists and self-described intellectuals. Label me as you will. That very act on your part is just as bigoted and prejudiced as you claim my beliefs to be. You see, when it comes right down to it, actually living by the ideals you so-called "liberals" claim to ascribe to is for all intents and purposes impossible. All your flailing around, personal attacks, manipulation, biases, name-calling, PDS, etc. only serves to re-enforce and prove exactly how unrealistic your claimed beliefs actually are, and how hypocritical you all are. The rest of us genuinely recognize the real world in all it's imperfect truth. We recognize and acknowledge our own personal beliefs. We accept the fundamental truths about people, similar to us or not, and love our fellow man anyway. In short, liberals, you are an ongoing embarrassment to yourselves, and you really need to grow up.
Well thought out and well put, FRiend, thanks, I agree with you 150%