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levite · 02-03-2008, 03:38 AM

1 - do you support the right for gay couples to legally marry? Yes, absolutely. If we're going to have civil marriage, it cannot discriminate.

2 - do you support the death penalty? Not in any form we've ever had it in the US. Capital punishment, IMO, is essentially just vengeance. Which I don't necessarily have a problem with, unless the government is getting into the vengeance business.

3 - do you believe that freedom of speech should be absolute, or are their some limits on what people should be allowed to say? There should be very minimal limits, only such as would be covered by minimal and non-intrusive public safety, fraud, and libel laws.

4 - do you believe that part of the role of taxation is to redistribute resources more equally? Yes.

5 - do you believe that people should be forced to learn the official language of a nation if they want to emmigrate to it? No. I think it would be a good idea for immigrants to at least learn a basic knowledge of the predominate language of their new country, but it shouldn't be a prerequisite for emigration.

6 - do you believe that prayer should be prohibited from schools? Prayer should be prohibited from public schools in the classroom during school hours, or at official school functions, whether during school hours or at other times. But I see no reason why a public school can't have, say, a religious club as an optional afterschool activity, so long as it's not the only club, and so long as it keeps to itself.

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levite Minion of Joss Location: The Windy City	1 - do you support the right for gay couples to legally marry? Yes, absolutely. If we're going to have civil marriage, it cannot discriminate. 2 - do you support the death penalty? Not in any form we've ever had it in the US. Capital punishment, IMO, is essentially just vengeance. Which I don't necessarily have a problem with, unless the government is getting into the vengeance business. 3 - do you believe that freedom of speech should be absolute, or are their some limits on what people should be allowed to say? There should be very minimal limits, only such as would be covered by minimal and non-intrusive public safety, fraud, and libel laws. 4 - do you believe that part of the role of taxation is to redistribute resources more equally? Yes. 5 - do you believe that people should be forced to learn the official language of a nation if they want to emmigrate to it? No. I think it would be a good idea for immigrants to at least learn a basic knowledge of the predominate language of their new country, but it shouldn't be a prerequisite for emigration. 6 - do you believe that prayer should be prohibited from schools? Prayer should be prohibited from public schools in the classroom during school hours, or at official school functions, whether during school hours or at other times. But I see no reason why a public school can't have, say, a religious club as an optional afterschool activity, so long as it's not the only club, and so long as it keeps to itself. __________________ Dull sublunary lovers love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove That thing which elemented it. (From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)