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Here's the flaw in your thinking. Most liberals don't give a damn what people believe in their personal lives, just so long as they don't attempt to force their own beliefs on everyone else. It seems to be a difficult distinction for those on the right to grasp.
That sure hasn't been my personal experience. You probably just support all the controls the democrats push onto everyday Americans.
Both sides try to manage and regulate those things they do not like.
Both sides try to manage and regulate those things they do not like.
Management and regulation are sensible when actual reasons for them can be established. Speed limits, air pollution limits, limits on the size of carry-on luggage. When you get to limits on interference with God's will, things have gone just a little too far.
Can't rep you, but this is exactly right. He has never stated or given any indication that he will try to establish law based on his own personal religious beliefs. That is the difference between a right winger and a left winger.
Democrats used to lodge their support for abortion using the mantra of "safe, legal, and rare." This was a roundabout way of asserting "we don't like it, but it should be legal and it should be the exception not the rule." Now they have dropped all pretenses of wanting abortion to be "rare" and instead have thrown all of their political might behind the notion that abortion-on-demand is actually a net positive for society and therefore must utilized to the highest benefit.
For Biden to stray from Democrats' platform suggests to me that he has willfully put politics in front of personal belief for the last couple decades. I find that to be despicable, especially since he's taking this position in the presence of the Pope's visit.
Biden is not a man of principle, obviously.
We Democrats do not believe -- at least in general -- that abortion on demand is a net positive for society. I have yet to personally hear a single Democrat say that. Every Democrat I know says that abortion is not desirable, but like Joe, we do not feel that our personal religious/moral opinion should dictate the law to all Americans.
And let's face it, you were no Biden fan before this.
Management and regulation are sensible when actual reasons for them can be established. Speed limits, air pollution limits, limits on the size of carry-on luggage. When you get to limits on interference with God's will, things have gone just a little too far.
So the limits you want to place on others are ok but the limits others want to place on you are not. Let me guess, you want to control my life for my own good?
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
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So that's your stance on things? All right, I've decided that I don't want to let black people eat in my restaurant. I don't want the government interfering with that, either. Sound good?
No. But it's certainly in line with many of your other posts.
He is obviously sticking by his strong Catholic beliefs. Good for him.
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