I don't have a problem voting for Christians; I've been voting for them my entire adult life. As long as they keep church and state separate, I'm fine with it.
As long as they will bake you a cake, right?
I don't have a problem voting for Christians; I've been voting for them my entire adult life. As long as they keep church and state separate, I'm fine with it.
I was in high school when George w. Was president and evolution was taught. I don't think the president will have much impact on that. I'll start worrying about climate change when the potus stops burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel to play golf, my suv burns less than that during my entire lifetime. If Christianity is such a concern you'd rationalize voting away rights to keep a Christian out of office I'd suggest a foreign land that has neither Christians or a constitution... and gay marriage is way down the list of things to focus on...we have a whole mess of liberal policies to fix before we're bored enough to attempt abolishing gay marriage.
As long as they will bake you a cake, right?
In a country that has freedom of religion you don't get to decide. That's the point.
Because guns weren't the only issue on my mind when I voted? I'll be honest; I expect that I'll be voting for Hillary next year. I'm not just thinking about guns, but also science (climate change, evolution in education), gay rights, and overseas military action. I can't, in good conscience, say "I got mine, you're on your own."
Already answered. The 2A is important, but not the most important thing on my mind when voting.
So I would believe that it would be gay rights then. What rights should gay, lesbian citizens have that they don't have already ?
On gay rights, automatic power of attorney (say, for hospital visits) and adoption stick out in my mind. For science, it's things like Reps insisting that "man doesn't change the climate; God does" or mucking with textbooks to "teach the controversy".
Nope. Saving the world is a job for scientists and engineers....
Last I checked gay marriage was legal, and the spouse has power of attorney. And gay couples are able to adopt children. As for "science" and climate change, as I said before, my suv doesn't burn in a lifetime the amount of fuel the potus burns in a jet to go play a round of golf. The ice age wasn't because of suv's and aerosol cans...
As far as "mucking with textbooks" we teach evolution in school and did when we had a Republican potus.
Then why do we have candidates specifically vowing to ignore Obergefell? On top of that, when Ted Cruz appears on stage with someone like Kevin Swanson, that doesn't give me a lot of hope that he'll maintain the status quo on gay rights.
If the Republican Party were actually serious about getting people like me to vote for gun rights, they'd ditch the culture war nonsense and build a coalition for that specific purpose. I'm not holding my breath on that one.
The Texas State Board of Education, usually. They were still trying to wedge in Creationism as recently as 2013.A conservative in academia is a lot like a liberal on a gun forum, pretty rare.
Conservatives generally aren't the ones "mucking" with the text books. We study history to learn from the mistakes of the past so we don't repeat them. The progressives want to rewrite history so they feel better about who they are. What exactly are you afraid of here?
Didn't you just acknowledge that gay marriage is now the law of the land? There's one recent example.If you destroy the constitution, or even parts of it, for the gain of "newly proclaimed rights" that aren't in it, you'll probably end up with neither. The left loves to champion minority groups for the votes, but how many have they truly advanced?
The Texas State Board of Education, usually. They were still trying to wedge in Creationism as recently as 2013.
Then why do we have candidates specifically vowing to ignore Obergefell? On top of that, when Ted Cruz appears on stage with someone like Kevin Swanson, that doesn't give me a lot of hope that he'll maintain the status quo on gay rights.
If the Republican Party were actually serious about getting people like me to vote for gun rights, they'd ditch the culture war nonsense and build a coalition for that specific purpose. I'm not holding my breath on that one.
I just never understood how someone can claim to be a 2A supporter then vote for someone who is against it.
So you're a supporter of the 2A and gay rights, but willing to sacrifice 1 for the other?
Yes. No one is offering both, so I have to pick and choose. That's just how it goes.
Yes. No one is offering both, so I have to pick and choose. That's just how it goes.