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Originally Posted by Radar
Personally, I don't see the relevance of your religion on your political views. They should remain entirely apart. If you are a "literalist Christian" as you claim, you should take the words of Jesus of Nazareth literally when he says judgment is reserved for god.
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Did I somehow imply that I don't?
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Perhaps you should follow the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and keep your religion and politics completely separate and work to keep government out of church and church out of government.
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Can you provide scripture references for this please?
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If you are against abortion, you should not get one and don't exercise force to prevent others from getting them if they choose. Allow them to be judged by god. The same is true of prostitution, gay marriage, collecting stem cells, drug use, polygamy, etc.
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..scroll up..
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Originally Posted by onyxcougar
BUT I truly believe in free will, and (from a legal standpoint) I don't want to ban abortion or force my religious belief (or moral code) on people.
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These activities don't physically harm or endanger anyone other than potentially harming those taking part willingly in them.
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The unborn child didn't asked to be made, nor is it "willing" to be killed via acid, saw or knife. This is where my fundamental views and yours differ. (Nor do I wish to start an abortion debate here.)
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This means it's unreasonable to create a law against those things. After all, who are you or anyone else to force your own religious morality down the throats of others through legislation?
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"We the people" are the ones that make laws. Or, excuse me, that's how it's supposed to work. "We the people" DON'T make laws anymore, nor do our elected representatives vote on laws according to their constituency's majority view, nor does the Electoral College vote the way the people in their states do.
The majority view is supposed to be the prevailing view, and STATE legislation is supposed to support this.
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And make no mistake, force IS involved. If you do these things, men with guns show up and tell you to stop or they'll take away your freedom.
Clearly libertarianism is not for you, but you do seem to support some small government. This means the Republican and Democratic parties are also not for you. These parties are responsible for our moving so far away from the Constitution in the first place, and both grow government at faster and faster rates while violating our rights.
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I don't think Libertarianism is "not for me", I think that like the rest of the parties perviously discussed, there are some things I like, and fewer things I don't.
Thanks, I'll look into that.
edit: after reading in a few pages, I'm so far agreeing with most of this Contitution Party Platform.
Thanks, radar!
Points of disagreement: that women connot be in combat.