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I am an Atheist in favor of gay marriage, abortion rights, and against creationism being taught in the schools. However, these issues are not important to me.
I am very against the huge increases in government spending and the government trying to control every facet of our lives. I am very against racial preferences and affirmative action. I am very against illegal immigration.
On these issues, I am very much a Republican. I voted for a Democrat once in 1980 and it was the biggest mistake of my life. It will not happen again.
My atheism has affected my political views, but not drastically. I gradually shifted from a very conservative Christians to a fairly liberal atheist, but my political views shifted before my religious views. And I can't even remember exactly how or when they shifted, but I think it began when I realized that I really don't care who marries whom. I was still very much conservative at the time, and I shared an office with a man who listened to conservative talk radio all day. Same-sex marriage had recently become an even hotter topic than usual, and all the callers and hosts were going on and on about how wrong it was. And for whatever reason, while listening to all of that I recall thinking, "Man, I don't really see why it's that big a deal." After that I just gradually became more liberal, and eventually began to question my religion, as well. And we know how that turned out.
I' m going to go wayyy out on a limb and make the obvious claim [for which, obviously, there are always exceptions!] that, more or less, one's logically-based atheism might well have literally nothing to do with their politics, but rather on their coming into some level of critical thinking ability, coupled with the apparently so very rare ability to be openly able to convert one's opinions in light of overwhelming evidence.
Yes I know; we're obviously creatures of highly inertial thinking, but the atheists amongst us seem to have been blessed () with the innate ability to allow ourselves an objective perspective, absent the unforgiving stubbornness seemingly inherent in a strictly intransigent and pre-determined religious or otherwise staunchly stubborn political outlook, even in the presence of overwhelming facts to the contrary.
In other words, a functioning "Just the facts, Ma'am" perspective can be enough to create or convert to atheism. No particular policial or religious agenda is necessarily attached, just a good old fashioned working IQ coupled with a lack of intellectual constipation.
I'm a Left Libertarian and an atheist. Seeing as I don't vote for any Democrats or Republicans, there's not much for me to consider on election day. If there was a Libertarian candidate (not a Ron Paul type) who talked about religion too much, I wouldn't even consider voting for them. I look at religion as being authoritative, it restricts thinking and behavior. Anything that restricts thinking and behavior is anti-Libertarian. So, I've never understood how someone could be a pious christian and a Libertarian at the same time.
I'm a Left Libertarian and an atheist. Seeing as I don't vote for any Democrats or Republicans, there's not much for me to consider on election day. If there was a Libertarian candidate (not a Ron Paul type) who talked about religion too much, I wouldn't even consider voting for them. I look at religion as being authoritative, it restricts thinking and behavior. Anything that restricts thinking and behavior is anti-Libertarian. So, I've never understood how someone could be a pious christian and a Libertarian at the same time.
Some of us that aren't involved/affiliated with any particular religious denomination and keep their faith to themselves/let their actions do the talking are pretty open minded. Some of our founding fathers where Christians. Some weren't. But they all agreed that freedom beats the alternative.
I' m going to go wayyy out on a limb and make the obvious claim [for which, obviously, there are always exceptions!] that, more or less, one's logically-based atheism might well have literally nothing to do with their politics, but rather on their coming into some level of critical thinking ability, coupled with the apparently so very rare ability to be openly able to convert one's opinions in light of overwhelming evidence.
Same-sex marriage is completely legalized in Maryland and Washington, D.C. So, in my area it's no longer a legal issue.
Of course, it's still illegal in most of the U.S. Most probably, there's going to be a Supreme Court ruling legalizing it everywhere.
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) with the innate ability to allow ourselves an objective perspective, absent the unforgiving stubbornness seemingly inherent in a strictly intransigent and pre-determined religious or otherwise staunchly stubborn political outlook, even in the presence of overwhelming facts to the contrary.
