(November 5, 2012 at 10:54 pm)TaraJo Wrote: I'm considering it, I really am. My biggest worry is that Romney puts his people on the supreme court and they overturn Lawrence v Texas (the supreme court case from 2003 that says states can't make consensual sex between same sex partners a crime).
I feel similarly about the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Even though I live in a state that would most likely still allow safe abortion, do I really want to live in a country where some women wouldn't have access? For instance, Mississippi or Wyoming. Is it right, just, or fair that women living in these states, upon an overturning of Roe v. Wade, would likely lose their access to legal and safe abortions? The argument would be made that they could just travel to have an abortion, while completely denying the reality that a lot of these women wouldn't have the means or the ability to take off of work to travel for such a procedure.
It comes down to state's rights. Do states have the right to deny a minority (women, in this case) within that state the ability to make decisions regarding their own health? Do states have the right to deny a minority (homosexuals, in Tara's case) the right to have sexual relations with another consenting adult? Nay.
We're supposed to be a nation of religious tolerance, however, Christians often fail to view people of other faiths or no faith at all as beneath them. The arguments against abortion and homosexual activity are completely grounded in Christian morality, which doesn't jibe with the morality of a lot of Americans.
