Why do people hate Christians so much?

Where to start? Let's start with the US Constitution which is the basis for our rules of law. I have good health insurance. Your president had dictated that the governnment will take over health insurance. Our government does NOTHING well. If government touches it, it's the kiss of death. I do not want some pencil pusher saying I cannot have this or that medically. I have a RIGHT (SEE THE BILL OF RIGHTS) to make my own decisions re my life and my well being. I did not give that right to the government.

We are at 11% unemployment, yet the President, unconstitutionally, passed an Executive Order allowing illegal aliens to remain in this country, even though he took an oath to uphold the laws of the land. Illegal alien enforcement is one of the laws Congress passed years ago. This will make the job market for Americans even harder than it is. But it seems Americans don't count in Obama's America.

When he opens his mouth, one can generally expect a lie to issue forth. Those who believe him are hopelessly naive. He strong-arms individuals, groups, and he stirs up racial tension we had mostly put to rest before his appearance. He has destroyed the economy - with Congress' willing help.

He has sullied the nation's first residence - the White House - with his appointments of socialists, street gang mentalities, such as Eric Holder, Kathleen Sibilious, Janet Napalitano, and the two socialist judges to the Supreme Court.......every one of which wants to be a dictator.

He is mucking around with the food supply - making it impossible for people to survive WITHOUT the government in the event of disaster, which he is working overtime to produce. He vilifies corporations that provide thousands of good jobs to the point they relocate in another country to escape the ravaging liberals do to them in the United States.

Democrats generally are the worst thing to have ever happened to the United States, and specifically, Obama is the worst of the worst. He is a sham, a fake person, someone who has used aliases (why?), someone who will not share anything about himself except lies (what is he so jealously hiding from the people who honored him with electing him?).

I could go on and on and on. But you don't want to hear any of what I will say, so why bother. I never have met a progressive or a democrat that could tolerate reason and/or fact. I hope you surprise me.

Uh-uh. George Bush acted like the President of all Americans. And you are not going to lay blame on Bush for Obama being elected. No Way! He's gotten the blame for every thing under the sun since the day he was elected. ENOUGH!! Obama acts like no President to any Americans and especially to those of us who are conservative. If he thought he could get away with locking us up, I feel confident he would do just that.

I am 73 - have fought against MediCare for approximately 50 years, starting before it was passed into law. Like it no better now than I did then. Give me the same amount of money the government uses to run MediCare and I could do a much better job than the government does. BTW, my grandparents have been dead for decades as have my parents.

Would I be happy with privatized police and fire departments? YES! I surely would. You may think the government has done fine with it, but it has contributed to the bankruptcy of this country which you may also think is O.K. I DO NOT think it is O.K. When governments run the economy into the hole, ALL OF THESE "FREEBIES" disappear - THEN WHAT HAPPENS?!

You people need, really, really need to get real. You really, really do need to think ahead just a wee bit. You MUST stop thinking of me, me, me, for just a moment while there is still enough speed going that you will receive your SS check this month - because next month you just may NOT receive it. You can call my comments anything you wish, but trust me, you will never think I am as much a liar as I think the left is a gaggle of incompetent idiots.

Thank you for your service - we need all the good people we can find. I have a fondness for the Army - I once served in the Army Nurse Corps - worked in the operating room. Loved it.

Before Obamacare was passed, I had an idea that I put forward here on SH about how we could avoid the entire mess we call Obamacare, provide better health care coverage for all Americans at less cost. And it could be practically instant. I merely wanted to get some people on board with me. I suggested getting a program going whereby those who could afford it, or a group that could afford it, would "adopt" a family's health insurance coverage and help the family deal with their medical problems. A person with more money could help more than one family. I could see it happening if it could be firmed up, planned well, and presented properly by the media. I just wanted to know what people here on SH thought about it. And I found out.

To a man, they nixed it totally without any further questions, without ideas. They had every excuse in the world as to why the "government" would be the only reliable source of help. I have to tell you that my estimate of what my fellow man really was fell about 50 points. I've never heard such negativity in my life. One disappointing thing voiced was that a simple American citizen could not be relied on...whereas the GOVERNment could?!

No conservative doesn't care! It's just that we see better ways of doing things than dumping it into the lap of a government with a lousy track record. Yes, liberals, rather progressives, are the selfish ones. I'm willing to give of me, myself. Liberals are only willing to give with other people's money. Liberals can't be bothered to give of themselves. Obviously they have much more important things to do, such as decide how much I must pay in taxes to fund their ideas.

I don't really care whether or not gays marry, cheat, or any other thing they want to do. I do, however, take exception to the constant drumbeat about "gays". It's getting really old, and I wish it were not a public forum. I have a right to not have it tossed in my face daily. I don't toss my sex life, sexual preferences all over the place. I don't demand special attention, and I'm tired of hearing about theirs.

I don't think the government has the authority to either deny or demand a woman abort a pregnancy. BTW, rights are those things we are born with. Our government can make things LEGAL or illegal, but can neither grant nor deny rights.

However, believing that killing an unborn, and sometimes just born child is in fact murder, I believe the government does have the legal right to set sentencing on those who commit murder. You may argue a fetus is not a human, and when you do, I'll ask at what point can a person be declared dead, and usually that point is when they no longer have a heartbeat or brain activity. Fetus has heartbeat at 4 months, and brain activity somewhere around there if I am not mistaken. So if heartbeat and brain activity indicate a living human for legality's sake, I take it to mean the baby beyond 4 months has the same rights. It has a functioning brain, body movement, can react to stimuli, and a beating heart with blood pumping through its body. What in others' thinking makes that a non-human? Everyone is born with a right to life. We have killed more babies in the US in fewer years than it took Hitler to masacre fewer people in Germany. We are REALLLLY "progressive", aren't we? Yep, we are really refined and "with it". Macabre best describes us.

On the topic of gay rights; I think your point would be well taken, if it were not for the fact that they ARE denied a basic right, by our government. You may be tired of hearing about it, but not nearly as tired as they are of having to live as 2nd class citizens. And until that problem is corrected, you might as well get used to hearing about it; because they aren't going away.
On abortion: Let me start by saying abortion is tragic. I don't know when life begins, and neither does anyone else, because it's subjective. Is it conception? Is it a heart-beat? Is it the ability to survive non-symbiotically? Is it the first breath? Everyone has their own opinion of when that life actually begins, and most of the time, that opinion is based more on the persons political ideology, than it is on medical science. But even if life doesn't begin until the moment of the first breath, I still think abortion is tragic; and that we should be trying to make it less common than it is. I'm betting we can agree on that. Unfortunately, I'm equally certain that that is the only thing about this discussion on which we agree.
The anti-choice people in this country are eager to fight for the good of the unborn; but they also tend to be adamantly opposed, and sometimes violently so; to fight for the good of the woman carrying that fetus/child. There are two ways in which this opposition is manifested.
First, there is the opposition to the woman who honestly has a need for an abortion. This might be for medical reasons, or it might be psychological ones. If a woman or girl is pregnant as the result of rape or molestation; it is very common for the anti-abortion crowd to say, "that sucks, but you should make the most of it." For some, that isn't an option. When every pound you gain, every morning-sickness, every look in the mirror; causes you to flash-back to the single worst night of your life, there are times when it's either an abortion, or suicide. Where is the compassion for a girl who has been through something awful? Why doesn't SHE matter as much as the unborn?
The 2nd way that this manifests; is in the ways we try to cut the number of abortions taking place. Liberals look at the reasons women choose to have abortions, and try to address them. For many, if not most, it is because they are young, and they won't be able to raise a child and finish school. Their life has effectively been decided by one moment. Maybe it was her choice, and she made the wrong one. But even a child who commits a crime, has the record expunged when they turn 18. Where is the compassion for this girl? If the government offered a day-care system, so that the mother could go to school, it would help tremendously with that problem. But that would be another thing for the government to do, and we can't have that, can we?
Another reason, is that they feel that they can't afford the costs associated with raising a child, but again, Conservatives just hate the program which helps with that: welfare.
Maybe the greatest thing we could do to prevent abortions, is to prevent unwanted pregnancies before they start, through effective sex-education, and by providing contraceptives and condoms. But once again, Conservatives hate that too; because they feel it promotes sex. Odd really how the highest per-capita teen-pregnancy rates; occur on states which think abstinence-only education, counts as sex-ed.
The fact is that abortion was illegal for many years in this country; and yet, abortions were fairly common. Calling it "murder", and those who have had one "murderers"; will not prevent abortions from taking place now, any more than it did prior to 1973. It will only force them to go underground, and do it in ways that endanger their own lives as well. I'm all for preventing abortions from taking place, but making a law against it, isn't the answer. And if you're going to make the government go THAT far outside of the Constitution; why not go far enough outside of it, to actually do some good?

Don't have but a minute or two, but wanted to respond to a couple of things you've said.
"This might be for medical reasons, or it might be psychological ones. If a woman or girl is pregnant as the result of rape or molestation; it is very common for the anti-abortion crowd to say, "that sucks, but you should make the most of it." For some, that isn't an option. "

I am sure there are some rabid people who might say this, but I've never met anyone who said that sucks, live with it, when a woman was pregnant as a result of rape or incest. And I live with and among conservative, church attending people, some more didactic than others, but never have a heard a callous comment about that. I don't disbelieve you, just have never experienced it, and don't believe it is widespread within the US, perhaps in certain areas it exists. Conservatives do not hate the Family Planning clinics, though they do disfavor them more now that abortion is wholesale. The ONLY business it is of anybody else is when tax dollars are used to perform a procedure that the taxpayer is opposed to, and that is also the issue with welfare. I've heard thousands of conservatives say, "do what you want, but don't use my money to pay for it". I consider that a superbly righteous and understandable stance. And the left goes viral when someone demands HIS money not be used the way the left WANTS it used. It's the stance I have. In my eyes, abortions on demand without cause other than convenience, ARE murder, but my government takes my money at the point of a gun and uses it to pay for millions of babies to be killed? Where is this "fairness" the left spends so much time talking about? It seems "fairness" to them merely means having their way 100% of the time.
Within the United States:
Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700

Why women have abortions
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

source: http://abortionno.org/Resourc...

Gotta run - could talk all night, but have other priorities at this time. Have a great week!!

"Voluntary taxes sound swell, until you realize that if you do that, we're gonna be funding our entire federal budget, with less money than the Lakers are paying Kobe Bryant, per year. " Nothing but an assumption on your part. Human beings are not cheap and selfish - but selfishness has been so overused by politicians and people demanding to have things go their way, accusing all who disagreej "selfish and mean", that to be sure THEY have won the battle, but they haven't yet won the war.

I find people most generous - when their money is not being demanded at the end of a gun barrel, which is what IRS represents. If I see a need, I support it without being asked. So does practically everyone I know. I believe we are so entrenched in doing things the same old way that we are afraid, haven't the guts, to break away from it - out of FEAR, not because the current way has been proven best.

Voluntary income taxation cannot possibly be called "disolution of the United States of America". It is what we once had.

As to "The thing about your idea that the only power of government, is what the Constitution mandates; is that it isn't realistic." NOW who is it proposing disolution of the United States of America? You assume our founders were so stupid as to think they were writing for a nation, where people would be free, that would remain static, never grow, never develop corrupt officials. I don't believe such is the case. Either we live under the constitution or it is a free-for-all which is being done as we speak BECAUSE enough people who have learned to write have a mantra that is repeated and repeated and repeated until (the plan goes) we will all accept it as truth - that the Constitution was written long ago when the country was small and things were different then. It WAS small and things WERE different then, but the Constitution is ageless and will work for any country that abides by it. Only when it is tinkered with and "interpreted", does it lose any of its effectiveness.