Mostly this post by John Cole is about abortion, and should be read as such, but it gets at the heart of a whole mess of issues that really get me riled up. There is a noisy bunch of people in this country that wants to tell everyone how to live. Abortion and gay marriage are high on that list, but science issues (evolution, stem cells) and other social welfare issues (welfare, Medicaid, affirmative action) I would also include. These are issues that either cost the taxpayer nothing or that cost less than doing nothing (more crime, decay and health issues w/o welfare, more high cost emergency room treatment w/o public health care). Particularly in the case of science, the opponents are often factually wrong (either deliberately or because they have faith in their own set of "facts")
And yes, this is a generalization...it is also a 1 paragraph blog post. To tease out the subtle distinctions between and withing groups I have grouped together would take pages...for each issue.
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