Also I loved my late wife with everything I have. I've repeatedly extended my hands in friendship to her family since her death but to them I'm the devil because I signed a DNR order that prohibited them from forcing the doctors to resuscitate my wife. They've said terrible things against me and have even abused my second wife whom I met long after the funeral of my first and have even tried to brainwash my children against their stepmother whenever they visit the in-laws. I'm just happy my kids aren't so gullible because they know their step-mom is a wonderful woman who loves them and treats them like they were her own. In the thread "Michael Schiavo's side of the story [sicko' barf-ola ALERT]"
Just not fair or right to dredge through this. Please lay off it. John 8:7.
Good, I’m glad you’re examining my posting history - I’m not ashamed of what I write or the positions I’ve taken.
I approach life using my head instead of blindly believing things either from childhood, in my church, or in school. I’ve changed my position several times upon reflection.
I have many beliefs, some conservative, some libertarian, some liberal - someone will surely have something to vehemently disagree with me, but that’s life.
Let me give some examples:
1. Yes, I supported Michael Schiavo against Terri’s family and the autopsy irrefutably proved his position was right.
2. I also support the legalization of all drugs, prostitution, and gay marriage DESPITE believing all these things are IMMORAL because I do not believe the state has the right to legislate morality.
I find it hypocritical people who can legally smoke or drink have the nerve to demand people who smoke pot be imprisoned and fined. Why should their addictive, harmful substances that kills millions every year be legal while pot with its zero deaths be illegal? If I, a person who hasn’t smoked, drank alcoholic beverages, partaken of harmful drugs, or even coffee and tea in 22 years, don’t demand the government punish drug users; what gives others the right?
Why is prostitution illegal but pornography legal when both have people getting paid for sex? The only difference is one has sex in front of a camera making the participants “actors”?
I’ve never cheated on either of my wives, but find it insane the government can fine and imprison a man and destroy his life for “solicitation” if he picks up a prostitute but it’s perfectly legal for wealthier men to hire “escorts” where sex is inevitable. Sure, one pays for “sex” while the other pays more for “companionship that includes sex”; but there’s still “money for sex” at the heart of both transactions.
While a missionary, I met a Catholic woman who was later abandoned by her husband with four young children to feed and clothe. Since she was always a housewife and had no work experience and no relatives willing to help; she resorted to prostitution to feed her children. Should she deserve to go to prison?
As for gay marriage, I frankly have no problem if gays want to marry as long as the government doesn’t force churches to perform the rites or recognize the unions if it is against their doctrines.
I simply reject the notion the government has the right to punish adults for what they put into their own bodies as long as they don’t harm others and similarly reject the notion it can punish consenting adults for what they do in the bedroom.
3. I believe any law-abiding citizen has the right to carry arms, and even concealed weapons, anywhere, including churches, schools, and shopping malls. An armed society is a polite society.
4. I believe doctors who perform late-term abortions where the fetus is viable outside the womb are murderers and should be executed.
5. I believe the media should be fair and balanced and their owners, editors, and writers should be imprisoned with lengthy sentences when they harm national security or endanger the troops.
6. I believe politics should be absent from the classroom. Any professor who shoves his political views down his students’ throats should lose their tenure and be fired.
7. I believe Islam the greatest threat to the West’s freedom, peace, and prosperity.
8. I believe “man-made Global Warming” is a myth and is just sheer hysteria. All man-made carbon dioxide and other emissions in history account for just .3 of 1% of “greenhouse gases.” IOW, 99.7% of all greenhouse gases are natural, not man-made. If you want a culprit for any rise in temperature, look upward to the sun.
9. I support the war in Iraq. The US and other nations did the right thing in removing a mass murderer’s terror regime.
10. I believe President Bush should resign or be impeached because of his refusal to secure America’s borders and for his immigration reform bill.
11. I believe tap water is better than bottled water.
12. I believe recycling is a water of money and resources - we’re not running out of trees, we’re not running out of landfills, we’re not running out of resources.
13. I believe in eating meat and in hunting.
14. I believe the government does not have the right to seize someone’s property citing eminent domain just because they want to build a development project.
15. I believe people have the right to access water and any minerals under their land.
16. I believe in genetically modified foods and that they are beneficial.
17. I believe there’s nothing wrong with DDT.
18. I believe we in the West are dying demographically and culturally and anyone wishing to preserve our way of life should have at least four children.
19. I believe multiculturalism, moral relativity, and liberalism are cancers that are destroying our society.
20. I believe the opposite of whatever Jimmy Carter says.
And a lot more.
Flame away!