#76 | Posted by somoco at 2009-09-01 05:20 PM
***"I missed where this guy said the government should persecute people for their choices on this? Can you show me where that was?"
I'm sorry, I just presumed FWTHOM was a conservative, and given the content of his posting history * www.drudge.com * I think I was justified in doing so. Furthermore, given that the ideology conveyed by the subject of the article, Bob McDonell, which is the same consevative, intollerant, debasing and hateful "family value" rhetoric we hear from the majority of Republicans, I don't think that it's a stretch to presume that, as a law maker, McDonell would apply these same "family values" to his decisions made as one. Sorry for the "stretch" of logic, but Republicans/Conservatives have consitently attempted to legally and socially deprive all of the listed groups of people: rights, priviledges and incintives as the parties Standard Operating Procedure...
***"I don't think anyone's talking about laws, they are making observations. So fucking what? In fact, we have the opposite of persecution. We have people who are stable and well adjusted paying so that others can be unstable and mal-adjusted. I'd submit that we'd have fewer of those "ilk" if the family unit wasn't under the kind of stress brought on by unwed mothers, divorced folks, 2 parents working etc"
I will assume from your post that you assume that all/most people that come from a home that you consider "less than ideal" are mal-adjusted. This is an ignorant premise. Also, Republicans aren't the only taxpayers paying for the less fortunate, just as Liberals aren't the only taxpayers footing the bill for the senseless wars America has been thrown into. We all pay...
***"regardless of your machinations, you know in your heart this is true"
"Machinations"? Really? I know in my heart what is true for me. And, that is: regardless of ones' situation, lifestyle, sexual persuasion or personal choice, as an American, one should have the same rights, benifits and protection under the law as any other American. If you and/or your "ilk" somehow misconstrue this as "machination" I understand; I've been a political observer for a long time, and Conservatives and their values are nothing new to me...