[Bluegrass Conservative]

We're pretty much in agreement, Dave. I don't support censorship at all. I don't believe there is anything wrong with contraception (as long as abortion is not defined as "contraception"). I don't support gay marriage, but have a hard time understanding how the government can deny it.

On the flip side, never met a tax that I like. I truly believe that our national defense should receive the highest share of budget money (I can be a bit hawkish too). And I am a FIRM believer in capital punishment!

[SoVaDPJ]

I'm thinking of just using your post as my explanation of my own beliefs! Though we differ in one area--I'm getting a little soft on the capital punishment thing. I agree with it when we're taking out those who we know for a dead (pun intended) certainty did the crime, but I'm also pretty leery of taking the government's word for it. On the other hand, if we quit making the prisons an "alternative living" area, I'd be all for leaving them in there to rot indefinitely.

[DLfromthedesert]

Don't know how the government can deny gay marriage? Have you not seen the margins of people in states voting AGAINST it?

Listen to the wisdom of the electorate. THAT'S how!!!

[MikefromOhio]

I don't support gay marriage, but have a hard time understanding how the government can deny it.

That debate, and where it is being decided, is at the state level. Most, if not all, of the gay marriage amendments won with nearly 2/3s of the vote in something like 19 states this past election cycle.

I wouldnt be totally against a federal amendment, but I do think that the states should be the ones to handle it.