A follow up post

[indiana_j]

It's sometimes a little embarrassing to admit that some of my political/social views are, when you boil them down, as simplistic as you can get.

I do not wish to take away anything from anyone.  That's it.  That's where my stance on abortion and gay marriage comes from.  I have the right to marry; why shouldn't someone who swings the other way?  I, currently, have the right to choose if I were to ever become pregnant; the idea of taking that right away from myself and all women sickens me.

At the end of the day, it isn't the government who would have to make those decisions.  It's the individual person.  That person will decide if that man or woman is the one they want to marry, they would have to make the hard decision of abortion.  What they do is not any of my business and what I do is none of theirs.

If there is concern due to children?  Raise your children the way you want to, don't raise them via the TV.  Don't expect their teachers to teach and raise them.  When, if, I ever have children I hope to God I'll be able to raise them the way my parents raised me - to be accepting, to be willing to learn different view points, to be open.  I'd like to believe that every kid out there is being raised to be tolerant but I know they aren't and that saddens me.

If there is concern due to religion?  You know what?  There's an awful lot of people on this planet and, honestly, a majority of them can't even agree on the best type of peanut butter let alone the best type of religion.  In other words, if God is telling you that gays are bad?  Then I don't want anything to do with your god.  God was only really pissy in the first book, wasn't he?  I think he's become a bit of a nicer guy since the whole flood stuff.  (So says the person who last opened a bible.  In college?  I don't know, I'm probably closer to being an agnostic theist than anything else.)

I just.  Don't get it.  And maybe my views are simplistic but they don't hurt anyone.  I don't hurt anyone and whatever Person A does in their life?  It doesn't hurt me or affect me because it shouldn't.

Comments

[lady-cassidy.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. It is so much better than the "I am right and you are wrong and if you don't agree with me you are a hateful bigot who doesn't believe people should have rights!" that seem to be the norm when people talk about views such as abortion and gay marriage. It is hard for me to understand how people feel that expressing such an attitude is beneficial; that is certainly not what will convince people to reconsider their views. Posts such as the one you have given us here, rather than proclaiming that the reader and anyone else who does not share the views mentioned must therefore be stupid and vile, present a well-thought out, non-offensive explanation.

Thank you, Jen.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Cassidy. I normally don't put stuff out like this because I never know how it'll sound so I'm glad it came across so well.