Reply #200: So here's a question:

[Warren DeMontague]

"When I vote it's to see abortion banned, prayer returned to public schools, traditional marriage protected which includes an end to "no-fault" divorce."

Why can't you be happy simply not having an abortion yourself? Is there something wrong with your church, that you not only need your kids to pray in Public School, you need everyone else's kids to be forced to pray to YOUR GOD in public school as well? (In clear violation of the Establishment Clause, I might add). You don't like divorce, or "no fault" divorce? Great. Don't get divorced. You don't like gay marriage? Don't have a gay wedding.

Do you get where I'm going with this? It is not an imposition on YOUR VALUES to say that you can't impose them on everyone else. Not everyone agrees that a stem cell is a "baby" or that the second a sperm meets an egg the fertilized egg transmogrifies into a single cell with rights under the 14th amendment. Not everyone thinks committed gay relationships are a bad thing, and not everyone thinks it should be harder for people to get out of shitty marriages. (What are divorce rates like in your "red states" versus blue states, by the way?)

And the bottom line is, Americans by and large understand that. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but one lesson of this election (along with the lesson of Terri Schiavo) is that the myth of the all-powerful "values voter" is just that- A MYTH. The American People are far more Socially Libertarian than the conventional wisdom is prepared to deal with. 44% of Nevada -hardly Blue Voter Central- voted to legalize Marijuana. Not medical marijuana, mind you, recreational use for anyone. It didn't win but the reality is trending towards personal freedom. In the 21st century, arguing that Americans shouldn't be allowed to divorce, use birth control, or have sex for non-procreative purposes is as silly as trying to pretend a 6,000 year old Earth and Dinosaurs on "Noah's Ark" is science.

But, I digress.

Again, I hate to break some bad news to you, but it's time for you far right "social conservatives" to grow up. The GOP has been using you, and your fantasies of dragging the rest of us back to some 1950s nirvana of barefoot & pregnant women, closeted gays, and criminalized nudie mags aren't going to come true. You need to deal with the fact that your choices- and you're welcome to them- don't need to be legislated onto the rest of us.