A Moderate Look at Social Issues

It's tough being a moderate on social issues in the United States. Both sides are completely nuts on basic social issues, and if you aren't with "us" you're with "them." I'd like to think that, in a country of 300 million people, that the two parties (I'll deal with the Tea Party later) aren't stupid enough to think that there are only 2 sides to an issue.

Take abortion, for example. The right (aggressively) wants to overturn Roe V. Wade. I really do not understand this.

My view is that abortion should be safe, legal and treated just like any other medical procedure. The activist judges that the right rails about have seen fit to extend constitutional rights to a "person" that has no legal proof of citizenship. I just don't understand it.

Making people is pretty easy (and, with most people, fun). We are in no danger of running out of them. Yet I have been to baseball games with people carrying signs of fetuses that have been aborted.

At a baseball game.

I simply cannot believe that pro-"life" people cannot, uh, get a life. Of all the issues you pick for your cause, you pick one that has the least amount of impact on the well-being of your life. Then again, the right does think they are the arbiter of moral issues.

The left, well, they are on the side of government staying out of your body. Which, oddly, is typically a view of the right.

Religion - I'm not that religious. Not outwardly anyway. As a moderate...knock yourself out. Be what you want to be. Just don't try to tell me that you are right. Because you have no way of knowing if you are.

I'm not an atheist, although I don't see anything wrong with it. I just think religion is personal. I don't want to pray with you, I don't want ten commandments on the walls, I don't care if politicians go to church or not. It's all about belief...believe what you want.

The left sometimes looks down on religion because, as a really famous lefty proclaimed, religion is the opiate of the masses. I think that's the point...it's supposed to be. Religion is something that is supposed to show how good and giving humans can be.

It's late and I need a moderate amount of sleep. I'll expand some of these issues a bit later.