crazyfingers said:
I believe that your irony meter is broken. It's social/religious conservatives have a great deal to be ashamed about when it comes to intrusions into peoples personal lives. In fact, of all of the vaious groups, social/religious conservatives have the absolute worst record.
Attempts to have official prayers in schools
Because of course America was never populated by a vast majority of Christians, and it was only recently that people wanted to pray in school.
Attempts to regulate how people have sex
Um, no. I don't know anyone who cares who has sex with whom. I don't believe that certain things are moral, but that's another matter.
Attempts to regulate what people can look at
Such as? Pornography? Hey, I've yet to object to seeing beautiful women, but I prefer to see them treated with some respect instead of being used as toys for the perverse pleasure of strangers. But that's just me, I guess.
Attempts to deny the ability to form families for various people
Ah, yes. Gay marriage. Because everyone knows that homosexuals make the best parental groups, right? That whole 'one mother, one father' thing that developed over a few thousand years of human civilization is just some old-fashioned concept that has no real meaning in today's enlightened social atmosphere, right?
I find it ironic that some of the people who fought so hard for legalizing gay marriage here in Canada are already divorced. The first gay couple, in fact, separated a few weeks after their marriage, and finalized their divorce last month. Heartiest congratulations on their demonstration of an exercise in futility.
Attempts to regulate what people do with their own bodies
I have no problem with people doing whatever they want to their own bodies. I have a problem with people doing whatever they want to someone else's body. The logic of pro-choice is this: I can choose to do what I want with my body, because it's mine. So if I follow that logic, I can swing my arm around with a fist any time, and if someone's face happens to get in the way, hey, it was my choice to swing. They can't do anything about it, because it's my body.
Your rights to do what you want with your body end when it impacts on someone else's body. You can't hit someone, you can't kill someone, you can't steal from someone...but you can suck out an unborn child through a vacuum cleaner and toss the pieces into the garbage, because it's 'your body?'
Bring it on.
[When it comes to imposing on people's personal lives, the religious conservatives take the cake. They simply can not deal with the idea that not everyone wants to be like them and will use government to enforce their own narrow views onto everyone for the sake of conformity to their personal preferences.
You mean like...affirmative action, federally mandated education, the welfare state, and a half dozen other things I'd list if I had more time?
My irony meter just went off the charts. 'Global village?' The NEA? Hello, McFly! The entire concept of the government social safety net was Franklin Roosevelt's contribution to American society. And don't even get me started on Clinton.
