greenie_breizh | Some kind of survey

Abortion?:	Yep, it's a woman's choice, but remember it's a big decision to make.
Death Penalty?:	Hell no.
Prostitution?:	I tend to say, no need to prohibit it, but if you do, make the fuckin' clients pay a fine too.
Alcohol?:	Lower it down to 18 at least. It's a joke to see a whole country pretending its youth is drinking less and better because there's a ban.
Marijuana?:	Decriminalize at least.
Other drugs?:	Keep them away.
Gay marriage?:	Yes. Have yet to hear a good argument against.
Illegal immigrants?:	Not like we'll ever stop 'em unless we finally have a world where people are all relatively happy, eh?
Smoking?:	Smoke if you want, just away from me and public places.
Drunk driving?:	LOVE IT. Riiiiight. What can I say? Don't do it. Duh.
Cloning?:	Raise interesting questions. Not very useful or desirable I think, so let's spend money elsewhere.
Racism?:	Still around, even though we try hard not to see it.
Premarital sex?:	Personal belief, so leave other people alone.
Religion?:	Personal belief, so leave other people alone.
The war in Iraq?:	Huge mistake and the worst way to show the world how we should handle international issues.
Bush?:	Lock him up in his ranch, I feel bad for the US that the world sees him as their leader.
Downloading music?:	Probably not a good thing, but let's face it, not gonna stop either.
The legal drinking age?:	16, 17 or 18 sounds somewhat right, but kids should be exposed to alcohol earlier through their parents.
Porn?:	sigh Whatever.
Suicide?:	Personal choice. I'll try and make sure it doesn't happen to people I love.

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On another topic, I find biggots bewildering. (But then, as my friend Bill would say, Bewilderment is a constant thing in my life.... Oooh, I should read a little Bill, that would make things better) How can you agree with the statement "the school should discourage gays and lesbians from applying" and not as much with the statement "Open gay and lesbian faculty have no place in this community"? I mean, for a faculty member to take that stand is really promoting honesty.

And I just read an interesting study of the America Psychology Association about gay and lesbian parents, which pretty reached the conclusion that there was absolutely no evidence to say that gay and lesbian parents are less qualified than their heterosexual counterparts. Not that I find that very surprising, but it raised questions for me. For example a strong point that the studies made was that children of gay and lesbian parents were no more "confused" about their sexual preference. And it made me wonder, because I really believe a lot of people repress their feelings for the same-sex because it's still looked down upon so hardly in society, and it seems surprising to me that gay and lesbian parents don't make it easier for their kids to be honest with themselves.
But then, we probably don't want those kind of findings to hope to "convince" people it's all right to be gay and a parent, it doesn't mean you'll abuse the kid.

Oh well. Oh, and anyone can confirm that dendrophiliacs are people who like trees?? I'm sorry to say, but Chipko sounds better. Yay relphil.