Conservatives, civil rights, and soul searching
LeanLeft tells us that Nickles is a bigot. Okay. Sure, for a moment I’ll agree. Atrios tells us that Nickles is religious and opposes homosexuality due to his religious beliefs. Quite the conundrum. See, the Bible does actually tell folks that homosexuality is bad. However, Americans largely believe that people can be gay and it doesn’t create a problem. I agree.
So, we have religions that say being gay is bad. But we have freedom of religion. So, we can participate (as is our right and the right of our elected officials) in a religion that views giving rights to others as bad since the others don’t prescribe to our religious ideals. It gets complicated I suppose. The point is that Nickles can think that if he wants. It is his right. If people don’t like it, they won’t vote for him. You know, the premise of our country.
Now, LeanLeft of course implies that all Republicans are evil and must be stopped at all costs since they’re all bigots. Despite this fact regarding civil rights:
In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes. – Go here for other stats regarding Republicans and civil rights. Plus some badmouthing of JFK, the liberal diety.
Yet the Democrats want to take credit for civil rights today, despite their collective record. And they want to point out the few black sheep from the Republican Party and then ascribe that to all conservatives.
I am a fairly conservative guy but not a Republican. I’m more of a libertarian (with a little L) and I’ll point out problems from each major party. However, I find it ludicrous to potty mouth conservatives because of a few black sheep. It’s as ludicrous as me pointing out that in 1948 Thurmond was a Democrat and then saying that all Democrats are against civil rights.
