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I am borderline Agnostic/Atheist, i generally believe in nothing on a spiritual level but im always open to the possibility i may be wrong. I hold many conservative values however, and often feel as i'm alone outside the traditional conservative circles.
In order of the questions asked, I am against Gay Marriage, i have no problem with civil unions and partner rights, I do have a problem with the redefining of words and traditions. On a civil level i do believe a Gay civil partnership should be entitled to all the perks and benefits as a straight married couple. However i do think that the two unions should not be defined under the same terms. When something people hold a certain value with is compromised it infringes on the people who hold that value like couples and marriage. However i do not understand why a union in the gay community cannot be defined in a manner that gives homosexual couples the same sort of value without taking that same concept away from heterosexual couples. I agree that civil union doesnt have the attractive ring "marriage" does but the only reason "marriage" as a concept holds value anyway is due to the sacred nature of the concept imposed upon it by religions. I think a lot of the objection about Homosexual Unions would dissapear simply by keeping the definition but changing its name.
On the subject of abortion i am most often against it. First and foremost regardless of who did what in MOST cases pregnancy is a result of consensual sex between two persons. In this regard i think being responsible for ones own actions would go a long way. This day and age we have so many freedoms and everything in society is permissible. One thing about the propriety of the decades before was that people cared about how society looked on them, like religion does to many, it kept people on their best behavior. People have a careless attitude in these times that no matter what a person does wrong, no one ever points at them self. Its always this person or that persons fault. I feel that if you cannot deal with the consequences of a sexual lifestyle, and cannot deal with the responsibility to prevent the possible consequences, that you should not be allowed to have resources available to "clean up your mess". I also feel the feminist movement tries to picj and choose the easy things and let everyone else pay for it. If you want to say the government has no right saying what a woman can do with her body, then i say a woman has no right asking the government to make taxpayers pay for those secret things she wishes to do to her body. And if women want equal rights from the government then a woman should extend those equal rights to the fathers of the children they wish to abort. This country is far to comfortable with passing the burden of responsibility of its irresponsible citizens onto the backs of its responsible ones. I do think that there need to be laws on these things until time people can handle the responsibilities of such freedoms without asking for a handout to exercise those freedoms.
As far as the gun control issue, the idea of limiting and restricting the public from possessing firearms does nothing to stop the criminals in this country from carrying guns. Guns used in crime are seldom registered to the one holding the gun, most times the identifying numbers are removed. Gun control does not work for the most part. For every case where a registered gun points to the guilty, there are hundreds and thousands of crimes where it does nothing.
I think Prostitution and Illegal Drugs can be dealt with in the same explanation. The fact that these two issues are illegal is exactly what makes them dangerous, threatening and a social problem. Simply by regulating both of these things would remove not only money and control from the criminal elements involved, but both would turn multi million dollar industries into taxable revenue for the government. Drugs as a controlled substance would ensure FDA regulations providing not only safer to the users. Prostitution would give not only safty to the women who chose it as a profession but would entitle them to benefits and workers rights as they have in Las Vegas.
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