What is worse: Banning big sodas or banning abortion, pot, gay marriage, polygamy, porn, cussing on TV, nudity on TV, women from going topless, the separation of church and state, sodomy, sex toys, free speech, science, history, interracial marriage, etc?
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All of those things and more have been banned by conservatives, and don't forget they fought for slavery.
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Herbtheman 2013/02/19 09:36:31
It just infuriates the situation and makes it harder to get your point across. Just because your faith informs you it is wrong does not mean it actually is. Keep your religious beliefs to yourself and promote the goodness not passing judgment.
So how is the rest Small government or freedom>??
to ban bathing if elected. Apparently his buddy Ryan has computed a savings of several $Billion if soap and indiscriminate bathing were punished with a severe tax on those with
taxable incomes of less than $500,000. The Carolinians jumped on that one like a chicken on a Junebug.
Topless women: If women are allowed to expose their breasts in public, we can hardly forbid men to expose their dangly bits to women and children in parks. Different lumps of skin, same principle. If you insist on showing me yours, I'll show you mine. Let's call it the right to equal exposure.
Free speech: It's ok, I also confuse left and right occasionally :) Put free speech next to big sodas where it belongs, and it's all good.
Abortion: I'd rather we shoot all useless, lazy or annoying people in the head on their 25th birthday. That way we don't end up killing the next Einstein or Mozart, and we still keep the population at a manageable size. It's a win-win. I believe it's also far more ethical than killing the most innocent human beings who haven't done anything wrong or stupid yet.
Separation of church and state: You might want to ask Obama about that. He talks far more frequently about Jesus and God than I'm comfortable with.
Pot, nudity and cussing on TV: Go ahead and legalize it. I don't see the big deal.
Polygamy and gay marriage: Polyamory and homosexuality are both perfe...
Topless women: If women are allowed to expose their breasts in public, we can hardly forbid men to expose their dangly bits to women and children in parks. Different lumps of skin, same principle. If you insist on showing me yours, I'll show you mine. Let's call it the right to equal exposure.
Free speech: It's ok, I also confuse left and right occasionally :) Put free speech next to big sodas where it belongs, and it's all good.
Abortion: I'd rather we shoot all useless, lazy or annoying people in the head on their 25th birthday. That way we don't end up killing the next Einstein or Mozart, and we still keep the population at a manageable size. It's a win-win. I believe it's also far more ethical than killing the most innocent human beings who haven't done anything wrong or stupid yet.
Separation of church and state: You might want to ask Obama about that. He talks far more frequently about Jesus and God than I'm comfortable with.
Pot, nudity and cussing on TV: Go ahead and legalize it. I don't see the big deal.
Polygamy and gay marriage: Polyamory and homosexuality are both perfectly legal. If you want to exchange rings and vows, who is keeping you from doing that? Just don't expect the state seal of approval, and don't ask for government handouts in form of tax breaks that are financed by other people's taxes. Instead, be glad that you've kicked the government out of your bedrooms. Why would you invite them back in?
Gays and polygamists are not treated the same, stop it with the "separate but equal" crap.
P.S. Lincoln was a republican you goofball.
Most of those things are fun. Conservatives are "offended" so easily.
Lincoln, along with George Washington, is the chief icon of conservative American values. With a profound sense of American history, unswerving commitment to republican ideals of democracy and civic virtue, and an almost Shakespearean command of the language, Lincoln articulated a vision of a new birth of freedom for the American nation. The destruction of the Confederacy, and of the slave power that menaced conservative American values, affirmed Lincoln's vision in the Gettysburg Address (1863) and guaranteed that "government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Dems were the Conservatives and the Rep were the libs... it has now reversed.
Without a doubt, he would have been a liberal Democrat today. He made his name in the Illinois legistlature by speaking out against the Mexican-American war as an excuse to spread slavery in new US territories. (can you say "ANTI-WAR LIBERAL"?!?)
Yet, he was backed by radical Republicans and abolitionists (America's first "bleeding-heart liberals") to beat the South. Southern Democrats absolutely HATED Lincoln and even accused him of being half-black. Today, those same Southern Democrats would be conservative Republicans.
Though Abe Lincoln wouldn't have been as far left as say, Dennis Kucinich, he would be a typical mainstream liberal Democrat today.
Don't believe me? Go read a bit more and you will find I'm correct. The Liberals back then were the Republicans, not the Democrats.
Chalking this one up to someone that isn't willing to learn new things. enjoy.
Where is there an agenda in that?
Lincoln was NOT a conservative.