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Originally Posted by Adam
What I do know is that I'm apparently hopelessly out of step with a sizable chunk of my countrymen and women. I care about good jobs for people who want to work, decent health care for everyone, rational foreign policy with an eye toward preventing violence, and national security. They care, apparently, about whether or not two men are allowed to share an insurance policy. I called my mother (a staunch Democrat and strong Catholic) this morning to suggest that, if we ever want to see sane government again, her church, and other religious institutions, are going to have to make a decision about what they value more. Is it peace and humanitarianism, or is it who's allowed to marry whom and who controls whose reproductive organs?
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Well put. Its very depressing.
And I'm afraid that so many people are either too tired, too lazy or too overwhelmed with "information" to weed the facts from fiction.