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Questions to ask a liberal:

1. If, conceding the liberal argument, homosexuality is a genetic predisposition, and a test becomes available to let
expectant mothers know if their, "fetus," is predisposed to homosexuality, should that mother be allowed to abort the
"fetus," on that basis? If she would abort a "homosexual fetus," does that constitute a "hate crime?"
Does preventing her from doing so impose on a woman's right to choose?

2. If we were not meant to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?

2. Suppose you and one other person were shipwrecked on a desert island, not under the jurisdictional law of any
state and country. Is it morally right for that person to kill you, or you to kill that person to stretch the food supply?
If not, what makes it morally wrong?

4. If sexual activity of any sort is "ok," provided it is between consenting adults,
does this include incest between children over 18 and their parents? If not, why? 17? 16? 15? 14?

5. If the government can arbitrarily set the minimum wage at $5.35 an hour, why not set it at $200.00 an hour?
Wouldn't this improve the lot of the poor and lower working class? To what degree should the employer be able
to determine the value of labor?

6. If you over-paid a shop owner $20.00 for a new carpet cleaner, would you not expect a refund or credit?
Would you consider it theft if the business kept the overpayment without refunding or crediting you?
Does not, an anticipated multi-billion dollar surplus indicate an overpayment on the part of the American taxpayer?

7. If your 23-year old daughter had an internship with a major corporation, and had spent her summer on her knees,
under the desk of the married CEO, would you demand his resignation, or support his retention because he had
been a "good," CEO?

8. Is it truly and logically possible to be governed by our consent without ultimately being given the resort of arms?
How is it possible that a human can honestly and legitimately consent without owning the means to refuse?

9. What paragraph(s) of the Constitution outline the responsibilities of the Department of Education?

10. If we, as a nation and political system have no moral superiority over nations and governments, why do
we spend money on maintaining memorials to those that have died in order to preserve and spread our way
of life? Should we no longer fund these projects?

11. If reparations for past wrongs can be demanded by the descendants of the victims from the descendants of the
perpetrators, should native Americans be named as defendants in law suits against the tobacco industry? If, as many
Afro-centrist scholars contend, Ancient Egyptian Civilization was the product of black africans, are not the Israelite
slaves who built the pyramids owed reparations?

12. If one maintains that Darwinian evolutionary theory should be taught as fact, and at the exclusion of all other theories in public schools, one must subscribe to the notion of "survival of the fittest." If one believes that, "survival of the fittest," is a natural, evolutionary process, does the Endangered Species Act set a dangerous precedent in man's interference with nature? Wouldn't the artificially protracted preservation of a species destined for extinction result in an ecological catastrophe?

13. If you knew for a fact that a person was HIV positive, would you allow your teen-ager to have sexual intercourse with
that person if they promised to use a condom they got from the school nurse.

JOHNNY GAGE WROTE: "5. If the government can arbitrarily set the minimum wage at $5.35 an hour, why not set it at $200.00 an hour?"

I have been asking people---especially minimum wage people---a series of questions very similar to that for years:

What should we raise the minimum wage up to? Maybe we should raise the minimum wage way on up to $100/hr. I mean, you would be making $100/hour for every hour you worked.

At that thought, they always get VERY bright-eyed and say YEAH!!! But then since businesses couldn't afford to PAY someone $100/hour to sweep the floor or operate a cash register, nobody would have a job, now, would they? They sadly admit no.

Then I ask, are you better off getting minimum wage (or maybe something a little aboe it) and HAVING a job...or getting paid $100/hour, but NOT having a job? Again, reluctantly, they opt for the CASH IN FIST!