Been a while since I've read this thread. I'll start by Wow. Santorum... Really. Wow. I now agree that Ron Paul is completely un-electable. Any one dumb enough to vote for Santorum couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag - and Kansas alone is full of these morons - not to mention the rest of the nation. To whoever said they voted for Obama - then promptly admitted they knew nothing about politics. You are the rough ridin' problem. Stop Voting. YOU ARE THE REASON DUMB SHITS LIKE SANTORUM ARE STILL ALIVE IN THIS RACE. rough ridin' educate yourself.
If anyone cares still, I'd like to add to the great abortion / gay marriage debate. Civil Liberties is all it really comes down to. Abortion is difficult because no definition of when sperm becomes life can be agreed upon. Obviously, A baby should have right to life; yet, a woman should have the right to not be pregnant. I want someone to legally define when it is life before I can chose a side. We've all heard the "an acorn is not a tree, an embryo is not a baby" etc. etc. Is it life after conception? Is the Morning after pill murder? Whatever. Answer those questions to legally define when life is life WITHOUT bringing religion in. You want religion to make a ruling on abortion? Simple, excommunicate anyone that has an abortion based off their definition of life. Stop trying to impose your crazy ass definitions of life on everyone. Or, you know, act like what a rough ridin' religion should act like and rough ridin' help the people when they are in need. You know, times like when they're thinking of murdering a baby growing inside them? Yeah. Maybe most people wouldn't hate you religion if you weren't so rough ridin' hypocritical.
But anyway, religious perspectives have no part in government, which brings me to marriage. Allowing the government to define what is and what isn't a civil liberty is very dangerous. Claiming that two men rough ridin' each other in the ass while they call each other husband hurts no one. If your marriage is so shallow and empty that you rely on how other people celebrate their marriage to define what your marriage is - then no wonder you're so worried about what other people do - because YOU HAVE NO LIFE. Maybe become secure enough in your marriage that you won't care if some dude from north dakota decides to marry his dog lassie and spend the rest of his life rough ridin' a Labrador retriever. Does that really define who you are? What, you're less of a person because you're "Allowing" someone to act inappropriately? Listen up dip crap. If it really is that inappropriate, the dudes dick will fall off from some horrible disease. At worst case, you'll be able to laugh at the dumb crap rough ridin' a dog. Oh, I'm sorry. You're afraid that your kids might think it's okay to eff a dog? Because Billy in North Dakota can? If you need a law telling your kids to not eff dogs, then you are a shitty parent and no amount of laws will stop your little Braden from rough ridin' dogs.
Why do I care? As a straight married with two kids 30 something man? I don't believe you should ever allow an elected official to be granted power over something that I wouldn't want my worst enemy to have. Chances are, down the road, my elected official may be my worst enemy. I don't want anyone, including my government, to dictate who with, when & how I have sex or enter a relationship with. And no one else should either. You're not gay for caring about these issues, It just means you care about what you are FREE to do with your life.