Is it Racist?

[Galahad]

I don't see cons calling to help these people by filling in the gaps where they minimum wage jobs fail to provide the means to shelter, feed, cloth, and provide health care.

Then you ain't lookin' very hard.........

 

[chobie]

Then you ain't lookin' very hard.........

Yes I know, they can work three jobs to fill in the gaps...

 

[maddiemouse]

I'm not Dawn and won't be answering for her but I thought I'd respond.

1) Conservatives don't want to "shove Democracy down the throats of other countries". We believe in helping to remove the barriers that prevent them from getting it on their own. And not necessarily by force alone. Who wouldn't want that?

2) It's not about preventing a woman from choosing what to do with her body, it's about protecting the unborn life inside. Who wouldn't want that?

3) This is a personal opinion (which I believe is also held by many conservatives) but I believe that same sex couples should have all the rights that same sex married couples have. Who wouldn't want that?

While I believe in civil unions, I don't believe (and I know it's just a matter of semantics) those unions should be called a marriage. I firmly believe that a marriage is between ONE man and ONE woman. I don't believe in (in the sense that the state shouldn't legally recognize them) plural marriages or unions.

4) In regards to Iraq. I won't go there because that's been hashed about more than enough times. Each side should pretty much know how the other side feels.

First of all, thank you for your kind and well thought out response to my question. But I still have a few more questions
1)When you talk about removing the barriers, how do you know that democracy is what these people desire? And is it really any of our business?
Maybe they desire an enlightened monarchy. Should we be making their decisions for them? We evolved as a country at our own pace in our own time, should we not allow other countries to do the same?
2)When the unborn life is born, and has absolutely no way to thrive and grow, because its parent is totally unable to care for it, what then?? I abhor abortion, but I have seen with my own eyes the children born of crack addicted mothers, and they haven't got much of a chance of a good life in our society today.
3)Who cares what they call it? Marriage, civil union, whatever. It truly is just a matter of semantics. Just like the N word was a matter of semantics years ago. The bottom line is that people, citizens of America are being denied rights that the rest of us take for granted.
4) Iraq is Iraq