An Answer to Brian Marick
In a tweet recently, Brian Marick asked me for my positions on certain political topics.
@unclebobmartin Positions on abortion, gay marriage civil/unions, drug legalization, prayer in schools, sex out of wedlock.
I have answered the first two in previous blogs on this site. Here are capsule answers to the others.
- Drug Legalization. — Legalize them all and increase DUI and related penalties to zero tolerance and very high fines and jail terms. If you want to do drugs, fine. If you hurt anyone, or even expose anyone else to risk, you’re going to pay whopping fines and do time. Regulate and tax the hell out of drugs, and severely punish black-marketeers.
- Prayer in school. — Let them pray. Who cares? Getting all self-righteous about bible studies in school, or student prayer groups is asinine. School administrators and teacher should take no position of any kind, either for or against, any form of religion or religious expression (violence excluded of course). They should not encourage it. They should not discourage it. They should be utterly neutral.
- Sex out of wedlock. — Who cares? If adults want to have sex out of wedlock it’s none of my concern so long as they don’t irresponsibly have children and then dump them on the dole! I don’t want to pay for someone else’s children conceived in carelessness. So parents who abandon their children should pay higher taxes to support those children. Nobody should ever be let off that particular hook.
I’ll add a one bonus point, just so Brian doesn’t have to ask for it.
- The teaching of Intelligent Design. — It’s nonsense. It doesn’t belong in the schools. Intelligent Design is a Trojan horse for Creationism, which is a Trojan horse for Religion.
