"The childless shouldn't be allowed to vote. They have little interest in the future of the nation."
That is one of the stupidest things that I have read in a long time.
First off, "childfree" is the word you are looking for. Someone who is childfree is someone who does not have children and never wants to. Childless is someone who wants children, but does not have them.
Just because a person is childfree doesn't mean they are not interested in the future. Plenty of childfree AND childless people are interested in the future.
You really need to get an understanding about what the United States is all about. People should not get the right to vote just because their reproductive organs work. Why should parents be the only ones who get to vote and decide who is going to be in the Senate, House of Representatives, governor, president, etc.?
I'm not defedning this country so that only a select group of people can have rights (especially when you want to deny ME my rights because I don't have children at the moment). If that's the way it's going to be (and thankfully those who make such decisions aren't as ignorant as you are), then I will hang my uniform up and move out of this country.
I contribute to the future, as does the childfree and childless. We do so just as much as those who have children. I pay taxes (except when deployed) and I exercise my right to vote, and I will until the day I die.
Welcome to FR. Read the rest of the thread, some of these folks are nuts.
What FreedomSpurge has failed to explain is how (in his view) welfare queens should be allowed to vote, yet priests and nuns not...