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As an atheist I'm glad that I didn't have to get married in a church. My husband's brother married us (he is a pastor) but the ceremony was secular. A lot of non-religious people get married and we don't see marriage as something that has to be religious.

As far as politics, I'm far left of most of the United State's left so I don't relate to them that much. My moral values center around harm avoidance/optimization of happiness and well-being.

I consider myself to be on the political left. I don't attack people on the right as much as I like to try and guide people into seeing a different point of view to the one we are always told is correct via the media etc.

Wow! I go to sleep last night thinking that this topic is about "the left" and other political parties who hope to score points by attacking others and ignoring their own laws and rules against doing so.

This morning, I wake up to a cluster-conflation (mash-up) of anti-vaccine klansmen and other Democrats (yes, the KKK found a home within the southern Democratic Party of the mid-1800s), racism (if I oppose the "knock-out game" and shooting blacks in the back, am I racist or do they cancel each other?), homophobia and feminine characteristics (I, too, rebuilt my car engine, own guns, wear a beard and have many other non-gay characteristics, but whatever), Christian bakers and photographers (some of whom have apparently lost so much business from their 15 minutes of fame that they are now bankrupt), and marriage (birth and marriage certificates were popularized by the Jim Crow laws of the Reconstructionist South). Yikes!

It is almost as if they designed our national dialogue to whip up emotions in exactly these ways; why comply with such forced nonsense? Live your life and call it good. Besides, what are we being distracted from in the meantime?

Another day at Wrong Planet....

Meanwhile, I am off to the Communicating Success on the Autism Spectrum workshop at the University of Utah ( http://www.perfectfifthproject.org/ ) where I hope we learn new things to help ourselves and others. See y'all this afternoon!

And regarding the "profits" motivating vaccines, you should keep in mind that in the rest of the developed world vaccines are required and they are not nearly as profitable in those other countries because of their universal health care systems negotiating the prices down. In fact, the federal government has had to partially subsidize vaccines in order to maintain a strong stock here.