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Edited on Fri Nov-05-04 02:44 PM by SuffragetteSal
To indicate that the Democrats lost the presidential election because of our 'moral values' is just lubricious to me and perhaps even uncontitutional. I might also add smells fishy from the Dan Quayle years when 'family values' were the two important operative catch words uttered a million times.
As a democrat and a Christian I must protest the moral values accusations. I am afraid the Republicans are using inappropropriately the words 'moral values' when they really mean their own homophobic values. Because the more left leaning voters might want to give our same sex citizens the right to a civil union or even the constitutional right to be married does not make us immoral. In fact the tradition of values I believe stems quite close to the origination of the U.S. Constitution...allowing freedom for all. But here in the 21st century that obviously is being interpreted quite differently.
Please, please don't call me immoral because I might believe that others have the right to make their own choices. For instance, I don't smoke, but I reserve the right for others to, if they so choose. I may not feel I could have an abortion, but that does not mean I want to deprive other women of that choice. And even my favorite example: I don't own a gun but I reserve the right for you to own one or one hundred guns, if you so choose.
Please don't call me immoral because I take a nonviolent stance. I truly believe in my heart there is a way to settle differences instead of 'bombing them off the face of the earth' or "shock and awing them". My choice to believe that even after all other ways have been exhausted, violence is never the answer to a problem. I don't believe it is a 'moral value' to enter a country and maime and kill innocent people, horrifically torture prisoners of war or accidentally blow the arms and legs off peasant children.
Please don't call me immoral because I may want to use all my constitutional rights, you know the ones, Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to gather in protest etc. Perhaps the name callers need a refresher course in the U.S. Constitution.
Please don't call me immoral because I believe every human being has a right to food, shelter, education and health care. If that means I pay pennies out of every hard earned dollar to help that happen, whatever needs to be done to help alleviate the pain and suffering of others, I will gladly do.
Do these sound like 'immoral values' to you?
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