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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
On this board, however, there is hope we can agree which party has the better platform vis-a-vis LGBT issues, and that party is the Dems.
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Is this going to be in the Donkey platform this year? I thought Kerry's position was similar to Bush's with a Clintonian straddle.
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I didn't say voting GOP made one a bigot. Clearly not so. I said voting GOP makes you responsible, in a non-enforceable moral sense, for the policies it enacts when in the majority. This strikes me as an underpinning of republican democracy. You can't simply say, "Well, I didn't agree with that part of his platform" and wash your hands of the very real impacts it's having on people. We don't let DUIs say, "I got drunk voluntarily, but obviously hitting those kids was a total accident --- never planned on it." People are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their actions. Voting is an action. No free pass.
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Maybe it's just me, but I feel in no way responsible for the actions of an entire party if I vote for one of its members or the actions of a particular politician that I vote for unless I supported the particular action.
Do you agree with the entire DEM platform? I think not and you admitted as much earlier. So are you responsible for all actions of the DEMS/Kerry if he's elected?
