Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ansel12
That is all very pretty but the reality is that social conservatives are the conservative vote, the rest of you are helpful but you don’t carry elections, in fact the majority of you vote democrat.

I have disdain for the Democratic Party as it is comprised today. So I certainly am not part of this majority that you speak of.

What is your types position on homosexuality and the military

Being a minarchist, I personally do not care about the sexual orientation of individuals. I do however have problems with homosexual couples wanting to have recognized marriages. If marriage is allowed to be redefined, then any kind of union would and should get equal protection. The real problem is the Social Security survivor benefits that spouses can receive when the other spouse passes away. I can envision all sorts of 'marriages' taking place simply as a means to gain access to these survivor benefits. But, if the benefits did not exist, I'd have no dog in that hunt.

As to the military [and I'm assuming that you didn't specifically mean homosexuality in the military], I am a 10-year active duty veteran of the United States Marine Corps and was a Staff Non-Commissioned Officer. The military (at least the Corps) is great; it's the never-ending foreign policy-induced entanglements that the U.S. gets herself into that has me distressed. Don't take that the wrong way; Afghanistan needed the Taliban removed and Iraq was non-compliant with 1991 cease-fire agreements. It's playing soft with N. Korea [making a deal with them during the Clinton years]; the Bush apology to the Chinese when they downed our spy plane over international waters in April of '2001; appeasing the Saudis for recent presence even though our presence in '90-'91 kept Saddam from marching his troop southward; negotiating with Isreal's terrost-state neighbors for some half-assed peace accord that its insatiable radical neighbors want; eceterra.

60 posted on 07/26/2009 1:58:31 AM PDT by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]


To: All
It's late. I've been up the whole night and that last paragraph has a few errors and omitted words. Screw fixing it, I’m just going to bed.
62 posted on 07/26/2009 2:05:48 AM PDT by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]

To: LowCountryJoe
As to the military [and I'm assuming that you didn't specifically mean homosexuality in the military],

I meant full open homosexuality in the military not whether you like the military or if your types approve or disapprove of homosexuality.

67 posted on 07/26/2009 2:21:25 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson