Christian Right

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

57. First of all, the word is "welfare", not "wel-fare"

Second, do you know why the government got into the welfare business? Because private charities, including churches, were unable to do the job properly.

And because I love God, I disapprove of abortion (murder), same-sex marriage and the removing of God off our country which is exactly what the Democratic party approves of.

Abortion is a complex moral question. Simply saying "it is murder" is simplistic. I shall say no more on that just now.

Same-sex marriage does not harm you or your religion in the slightest. The Catholic Church opposes civil divorce, yet seems to get along quite well in countries, such as the US, where it exists. Essentially, you are insisting that those who do not share your values should be forced to live by them. I keep saying that when conservatives say "I believe in personal freedom," they actually mean "I believe in personal freedom, just as long as the person is doing what I, personally, approve of." Or, to put that more simply, the conservative is saying "I do not believe in personal freedom."

"Removing God off our country" seems to mean that you disapprove of the First Amendment.

You support a party which wants tax cuts for the rich, and cuts in Social Security and Medicare. In other words, the Republicans want the billionaire Koch brothers to get richer, and my 91-year-old mother-in-law, who depends on Social Security and Medicare, to live in poverty with no access to healthcare. As Adam Smith wrote, "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind". That is certainly the "vile maxim" of the Republican Party.