They don't debate. They attack with the sole intention of silencing you.
Every once in a while, they'll attempt to guilt trip you, make you feel sorry for them, or try another emotional angle. It's nothing more than another way to silence you.
If you're interested in a liberal girl, well, have at her. Don't talk politics, don't try to convert her, just... ah... yeah.
If you're friends - I mean real friends here, not just a classmate - with a liberal guy, either tread softly or avoid politics altogether. It'll take a firm a$$ kicking from life to force him to, ah, "grow up".
If they truly cared about the benefits of marriage, they would work hard to strengthen civil unions. However, that isn't their aim. They simply want the State - and society at large - to sanction them, to grant them moral approval.
Good luck, no matter what you choose to do.
My hexadecimally named friend has good advice. It's like they said in Animal House just mention Civil Rights, Modern Art, or Primitive Cultures and you're in like Flynn
Just to clear it up, I’m not interested in a liberal girl. Krissy is conservative, but has more of a friendship with Dave than with me, so she (wrongly) chided me and not him.
I’m married to a conservative gal. She got a double major in Violin Performance and Illustration. She then went on to get her Master’s in Secondary Education and is now a teacher. How the hell she turned out conservative is quite mind boggling! Maybe it’s because she doesn’t do modern art and she had to hide her passion for fiddling from her music professors...
Here’s a link to some of her artwork, if interested.
http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq119/i2financial/