Uh, no offense, but I’ve known and worked with and even lived with (as a renter) homosexuals my whole life. Like many Alaskans, Palin seems to be expressing what used to be a common idea - what you do on your own property and inside your own home is your business. Yeah, try to hit on me and I’ll tell you to get the hell away from me, but I’ve also told that to several women who were unsavory, too. Our so-called marijuana “legalization” up here in Alaska back in the day came from that same idea - if you want to grow a small amount of weed on your property, it’s not an important issue for the state. (Actually, dope was still against the law, but the Alaska Constitution’s privacy clause trumped the state’s interest in violating it to bust you for small amounts of pot.) Palin’s expressing typical Alaskan libertarianism.
I can also say, from personal experience, that many, many gays that I know have been sad, confused people. However, if you’ve got it together and want to fight and die for the United States, you’ve got my appreciation, and I don’t care if your sexual tastes tend towards Salma Hayek or Russel Crowe.
The same attitude about religion, politics, and ethnic pride allows us to live with each other pretty well up here. It’s not my business to tell you how to live, what to believe, and what you want to do on your property, unless those decisions directly harm others. I would also add that if you want to smoke weed all day and sit on your ass doing nothing, the rest of us are under no obligation to give you welfare, either. You reap what you sow. IMO.
Uh, no offense...
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Offense has been taken.
Your entire post is dripping with pro-quueer sentiments.
Your tolerance and acceptance is part of the problem.
They don't keep it in the privacy of their own home. They have parades that are disgusting, they lobby for special rights, it's being taught in schools and they have set up political machines. How is ANY of that private?!
When you are in my duty section, sleeping in my bunkroom, possibly hotracking (look it up) in my rack, you are NOT inside your own home. If she is soft on DADT, I’m OUT on Sarah Palin.
You are living in a dream world. On this planet in this country when someone makes a bad decision: have child out of wedlock, drug use, dangerous sexual practices (homosexuality), bring illegal (poor countries) children into this country, I am forced to pay for it by the state and federal government. Were you here for the passing of Obama-care? I didnt see the homosexual rights crowd fighting to cut social spending, in fact they do the opposite, they fight for aids funding.
Agree 100% - That is true Western conservatism. Follows the Code of the West as spoken by John Wayne in the Shootist: “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people and I require the same from them.” In other words, do what you want, just don’t bother me.