FAIL: Vote Obama, keep the Religious Right out of power!
Posted by Michael at 8/28/2008 10:39 AM 
Categories: Domestic Issues, Philosophy Arguments, Not Convincing
Categories: Domestic Issues, Philosophy Arguments, Not Convincing
Are you kidding? The Religious Right hates McCain.
He's arguably an anti-Federalist conservative, not a religious/social one. He supports stem cell research. He'll sooner dismantle the U.S. Department of Education than force it to teach creationism. He opposes Federal involvement in social issues such as gay marriage and abortion, preferring to punt those issues to state legislatures and letting people define the rules of their own society on a state-by-state basis.
The website Campaign Issues 2008 offers a very good breakdown of issue stances of all 2008 candidates - and if you compare McCain's stances against those of the Religious Right's cheerleader, Mike Huckabee, you'll find there's no danger of the Religious Right's empowerment via a McCain Presidency.
These entries are supposed to be about me, not about social philosophy in the abstract. But it's not even worth getting into my opinions about religious conservatives, where they're right, where they're wrong, the recent history of religion in politics (it's changed substantially in the last 30 years), the value that the Protestant Ethic brings to America and the Christian roots of all contemporary Left-wing dogma, blah blah blah bah. The bottom line is, McCain has about as much love for Pat Buchanan as Obama has for Louis Farrakhan. So in this election, religion is pretty much a non-issue, and I won't be affected either way.
He's arguably an anti-Federalist conservative, not a religious/social one. He supports stem cell research. He'll sooner dismantle the U.S. Department of Education than force it to teach creationism. He opposes Federal involvement in social issues such as gay marriage and abortion, preferring to punt those issues to state legislatures and letting people define the rules of their own society on a state-by-state basis.
The website Campaign Issues 2008 offers a very good breakdown of issue stances of all 2008 candidates - and if you compare McCain's stances against those of the Religious Right's cheerleader, Mike Huckabee, you'll find there's no danger of the Religious Right's empowerment via a McCain Presidency.
These entries are supposed to be about me, not about social philosophy in the abstract. But it's not even worth getting into my opinions about religious conservatives, where they're right, where they're wrong, the recent history of religion in politics (it's changed substantially in the last 30 years), the value that the Protestant Ethic brings to America and the Christian roots of all contemporary Left-wing dogma, blah blah blah bah. The bottom line is, McCain has about as much love for Pat Buchanan as Obama has for Louis Farrakhan. So in this election, religion is pretty much a non-issue, and I won't be affected either way.
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In my own opinion, I think religion should not be involved in politics. However, we can not deny the fact that in these days, religion is a big deal.
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This is one of the biggest issue today. Religion vs. Politic. It made my head spin..
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I'm not so sure I agree with you about the religious right not wanting McCain. Don't you think the religious right just wants whoever is not liberal and a Democrat? That's my opinion. I agree with WP Sydney, religion does not belong in politics because there isn't ONE single religion that everyone believes.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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