I have set up anti-abortion exhibits on my college campus. I was raised in a conservative Christian school for 11 years. My aunt teaches Christian worldview in a public school voluntary club. I voted in favor of the Texas constitutional ban on gay marraige. My family has supported focus on the family..and there is other stuff that I don't wish to share because it would be too radical.
I'm definitely a social conservative, especially on Christian right issues.
However, on marijuana, I might favor medical marijuana in a controlled environment. I think that if marijuana were ever legalized at least it should not be smoked in public. I don't want to be walking around six flags with a four-year-old kid and look down and suddenly find that the kid is stoned. Marijuana smoke has greater second-hand effect than cigarette smoke. I have never smoked marijuana myself. Outside of medical marijuana though, I am strongly in favor of all drug enforcement because drugs poison our society.
On minority issues, I am strongly in favor of accepting blacks and hispanics into our society. I'm a moderate on immigration and although I oppose Affirmative Action, I support the idea of finding ways to close the achievement gap at the lower grade levels where it can be fixed. We need to close the gap at the bottom level so we are not faced with the associated problems of injustice of Affirmative Action at the top level. Possible ideas for closing the gap at the bottom level include busing, redistribution of school funds, standardized tests, and abolishing honors classes up to the third grade. Affirmative Action doesn't heal the disease of the gap, it only treats the symptoms. We need a comprehensive plan to fix the system so we don't have to let any person into college over another one based on race or class. This is an issue where the left gets it wrong and the right doesn't get it.
On the environment, I think we should have good stewardship of the earth, but I think we can use its resources and expand cities and stuff. I favor drilling in ANWR with environmental precautions, which I see possible. I'm neutral on global warming but tend to disagree with it. I know there is disagreement about it. My Chemistry professor last year is one who doesn't buy the theory.
I usually support gun-owners rights. People should be able to own assault rifles. But I favor background-checks and think some reasonable limits should be drawn (no one should be able to own a grenade launcher. It would be like giving people the ability to call fire down from heaven.)
I think the government should be allowed to wiretap or put surveillance on people, BUT there needs to be a documented warrant that stays forever in a CIA database of records, instead of 5 people sitting around a table wiretapping anyone they want.
-although I support many women's rights, such as the right to hold public office, work, and vote, I think men should have the primary place of authority in the church and in the home, (but with women definitely allowed to participate), and some of my ideas are contrary to feminism.
-death penalty - highly charged issue, I keep my opinion to myself.
socially conservative, moderate, or very conservative?
14 Sep 2007, 2:28 am
for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.
