very anti-choice think that anyone who is pro-choice is morally corrupt
I think this is partially due to liberals abandoning morals to the religious right. This could be just me talking, but when you have the foundational belief that it is wrong to impose your own morality on others, it feels wrong to frame a debate in terms of morals. Many people conflate being moral with believing in God so I guess it's inevitable to think a different morality is evil or corrupt.
I was one of those polled in exit polls in the 2004 elections. I answered questions about whom I voted for, what issues determined my vote, and categorized my reasons for voting as I did. "Morals" was an option on the list but I didn't check it. Thinking further on it I did vote my morals: I believe that it is morally wrong to tell other people what they may do with their bodies. Allowing one side to declare itself in moral terms without offering an opposing morality leads, I think, to a perception that the answering viewpoint does so because it lacks morals.
Like, oh, the environment, as one example...
Yes, well, I believe the Bush Admin has made it clear that it has focused on the environment. There is no such thing as global warming. Coal is good. Oil is better. I have no doubt that we'd be burning Guantanamo detainees as renewable resources for torch-light if they thought some namby-pamby world court of opinion wouldn't demand that we cease and desist.
Not, yanno, that I'm bitter about the admin or anything...
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I think this is partially due to liberals abandoning morals to the religious right. This could be just me talking, but when you have the foundational belief that it is wrong to impose your own morality on others, it feels wrong to frame a debate in terms of morals. Many people conflate being moral with believing in God so I guess it's inevitable to think a different morality is evil or corrupt.
I was one of those polled in exit polls in the 2004 elections. I answered questions about whom I voted for, what issues determined my vote, and categorized my reasons for voting as I did. "Morals" was an option on the list but I didn't check it. Thinking further on it I did vote my morals: I believe that it is morally wrong to tell other people what they may do with their bodies. Allowing one side to declare itself in moral terms without offering an opposing morality leads, I think, to a perception that the answering viewpoint does so because it lacks morals.
Like, oh, the environment, as one example...
Yes, well, I believe the Bush Admin has made it clear that it has focused on the environment. There is no such thing as global warming. Coal is good. Oil is better. I have no doubt that we'd be burning Guantanamo detainees as renewable resources for torch-light if they thought some namby-pamby world court of opinion wouldn't demand that we cease and desist.
Not, yanno, that I'm bitter about the admin or anything...