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• Sunday, August 17, 2008 01:04 PM

  @PaulHealy

  "Why is it that when conservatives give their opinion on an issue such as gay marriage, abortion, etc. we're sticking our noses where they don't belong?"

  Fightthetheocracy did a fine job answering this question, but let me elaborate: It is all about choice- it really is as simple as that. There is a bumpersticker that puts it very well: If you don't believe in abortion, don't have one." We (me, fightthetheocracy and a lot of the rest of us here) don't have a zero-tolerance attitude towards you and your ignorant beliefs. We don't require you to get married or not regardless of our own orientations and beliefs, nor do we require you to terminate pregnancies. We don't make you go to church or not, and we don't require those we would choose to be leaders to adhere to our beliefs- or lack there-of. I personally think belief in a personal god is complete bullshit akin to belief in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, but I don't impose that belief on you. Nor do I impose it on whoever the next president will be by making religion a test of their qualifications. You "conservatives" on the other hand demand and claim the right to tell us what to do with our minds, bodies and lives, and think it is perfectly OK to invoke the long arm of the law to force everyone to toe the hard line you draw. Unbidden, you attack other countries to impose your beliefs on others. If you were content to simply believe in what I hold to be utter nonsense in private I would have absolutely no problem with it. I see no evidence you have any intention of according me the same respect.

  —Absolut Carnage Read Absolut Carnage's other letters
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