Jimmy is a libertarian! How interesting! When I was active with the libertarinans, we were anxious to keep government not only out of our back pockets but also out of our bedrooms! You obviously have a very healthy attititude to the respective roles of church and state, especially in relation to the legislation of moral issues.
Hi David, I used to be an LP member but left because of the kooks and fringe elements within the Party. I joined the GOP (for about the 5th time in my life) but am not happy with the factionalism and near-Democratic path the Party has taken. Insofar as my health attitude, well, I am not so sure you'd say that if you knew my positions on a few critical issues. I do not support abortion and think it is murder, plain and simple. It's not a religious issue, per se, but a legal issue. I do support a person's right to marry whomever they wish and think if a woman wants to charge for sex, that's her right. Granted, I do not agree with this--I think it's immoral--but think in a relatively free society, she should have this right. Another reason I am back in the LP is that the purists are losing ground and the pragmatics are gaining ground. BTW, still like the President!
I find your stances somewhat interesting. Dare I say we are very close on some key issues? I agree on marriage, prostitution but where we differ is on abortion, I see the abortion argument from both the medical/scientific side(which is what Roe v. Wade was based on) and say I think abortion is immoral and therefore pledge to never have one!(ok so it's physically impossible for a man to have one, minor detail). Who am I to say what is right or wrong for a girl who was raped or had incest, and last but no least with drugs like RU486 which is just mimics what a woman's body does naturally in some pregnancies(without the woman ever knowing) it makes the old fashion surgical procedures very limited..Other than that I don't like what abortion clinics looked like before Roe. From some previous discussions I was led to believe we were completely in different galaxies. BTW I like the president so much I'd offer to share him with any other country that would take him. Returning from hijacked thread.. now as far as the Anglicans go, it does seem inevitable due to the different dogma on both sides that there will be a spilt in the Episcopal Church. It's only going to get uglier before it gets better.
Very interested to hearing your opinions, Jimmy. You draw a nice line between morals and law. Yes, when you are a purist, it is hard to throw one's heart into mainline politics.
Well, thanks for conceding to a mere man rights equal to those you would concede to a woman. As a practical matter, however, I am so fat and so ugly that I'd likely not make much money at it, so why bother?
