8/24/2004 08:40:39 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

We must get a little better at candidate control. The Dems don't get the bad press they deserve when people like Cynthia McKinney of George, Maxine Waters of California, or Elijah Cummings of Maryland, all racists, run and win. However, I get irked when Republicans when equally horrid ideas win or come close to winning. One example is Vernon Robinson in North Carolina, who ran on a homophobic platform and made it to a primary runoff and lost. Another is closer to home - James L. Hart, who actually won his congressional primary and seems to be banking his campaign on eugenics and Nazi revival.

Both men are disgusting in their own right. We as a party are better. Whether you agree with homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle or not, they are still people, and should be treated as such. Besides, with the War in full swing, and thousands of terrorists across the globe just itching to get their hands on a nuclear weapon, there are bigger fish to fry. Even on the state and local level, security should be the primary focus. Then budgetary concerns, to include maintaining lower taxes and restricting unnecessary spending. Then infrastructure. Then, if you really have a lot of spare time, and having nothing else to do, social issues. But this is truly counterproductive. You cannot change attitudes by fiat.

The culture war will not be fought and won or lost through the halls of government. It will be fought through personal interaction, private organizations, and community involvement. Government cannot legislate morality, nor should it ever. To do so is unconstitutional. Our Constitution was founded not on a roving culturally moral perspective, but on a perspective based in the indisputable morality that everyone should be left alone. Black, white, gay, or just plain weird, everyone deserves to be let alone. This goes for the tax-and-spend liberals and the morally legislating right.

I am personally a member of the non-morality-legislating right. I am prolife, but can make that argument from a nonmoral perspective. I do not care what anyone else does, as long as they don't come to my house, and they don't reach into my pocket. Keeping life simple for everyone is a good philosophy, and I subscribe to it wholeheartedly.

Ahh well - I've got to be in court in an hour. See everyone later.

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