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Originally Posted by lookout123
Well, I'm a conservative so my values are hate and intolerance. or so I've been told.
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If you dont want your church to conduct gay marriages, that is between you and your church and not intolerant. If you want the government to prohibit the right of a gay couple to marry or have the same rights as married couples, that is imposing your religious values on the broader society; values that dont have consensus support, and IMO, intolerant.
The same does not apply to supporting a flat tax. Different issues and different meaning of extreme.
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I think the intolerance shows up in the social issues where, more often than not, they are defined by religious doctrine. But then again, I think most organized religions are intolerant to some degree.
Fiscal issues (tax policy, regulatory policy, etc) are defined more by political ideology rather than religious doctrine.