What is your political ideology? (test included!)

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mirgro said:

Rath said:

mirgro said:
Looking over the questions some more. I honestly hope that they don't think that religiosity (if it's a word) and all that it entails, such as abortion and other such things, is a sign of conservatism. I have met some very conservative secular people, and I have to admit, they make a ton more sense than your religious variety of conservatives.

Anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-contraception are all socially conservative positions, so they move the dot upwards. The fact that they are related to religion isn't really important as far as this goes.

I have seen die-hard conservatives, both socially and economically, who don't have any problems with those. Those are purely religious problems, and frankly, they give conservatives a bad name. They should just be labeled as religious and leave it at that.

To be fair, a lot of the sentiment may lie more with personal convictions rather than public. For example, someone such as myself is vehimently anti-homosexual from a relgious standpoint (I believe its morally wrong), but am pro-gay marriage because I simply don't have the right to force another person into my views.

Abortion is a little bit different of a matter, though, because you can have 2 sides to the same 'which side is restrctive towards personal liberty?' coin:

• One may believe that its authoritarian to ban a woman from having an abortion
• Another may believe that its authoritarian to allow a woman to destroy a fetus 

Otherwise, most other issues are pretty cut and dry - either you are for restricting freedom to do something, or not.