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Originally posted by The_Dude
dem's are for the right to privacy, aka the right to choose
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You mean, unless said choice goes against the Democratic platform. You can choose, as long as you don't choose to be a white upper-middle-class fundamentalist Christian. You can choose, as long as you don't hire someone based on their skills and experience, but instead based on their gender or the color of their skin. You can choose, as long as you don't want to choose a private school that actually teaches your children how to be responsible adults over our incredibly broken public school system.
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Originally posted by The_Dude
dem's are for gay rights, repub's are way against it and have come out and condemned it in extreme terms.
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Yeah, Ronald Reagan was a real opponent of gays and lesbians. You are confusing Republicans (the Republican platform specifically) with the (imo misinterpreted) funamentalist Christian beliefs. Republicans oppose hate crime legislation not because of a deeply-rooted hatred for minorities or gays/lesbians, but because the very idea of policing people's thoughts is frighteningly wrong. Murder is murder, regardless of if someone "hated" the other, or if it was for profit. Try to find anywhere in the Republican platform where they state that they do not endorse/condone homosexuality. You won't find it.
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Originally posted by The_Dude
dem's are much more for a seperation of church and state.
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The intent of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" is to prevent establishment of a national or government-sponsored religion -- not to stop a non-denominational optional prayer-in-schools program.
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Originally posted by The_Dude
i can think of a couple of things that the dem's are for that are not that good : affirmative action, double tax and i disagree a lil bit on economic policy.
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Agreed, affirmative action just divides the populace, when it should be brought together. It brings attention to differences in skin tone when it should be ignoring them.