Do you care about the post-born as much as you care about the pre-born? Does a 5 year old have a heart-beat? Does a five year old feel pain, hunger and cold? Do you care about that or is your job done once the fetus is born? If you are successful in helping god end abortion, will you leave the children to god? Is that child entitled to the same care as your children? BTW, keeping a heart beating is no sign of life. Galvani showed that electricity will keep a muscle beating. The pain is just pseudo-science by the same charlatans who bring us 'creation science'. "who the hell are you to tell us on what we should base our laws? " The rational majority is who.

Why don't you hold funerals when god aborts a fetus? So are you ok with abortion before there is a heart-beat? Are you ok with the 'morning after pill' or is it really about your superstitions? I was too kind when I called it religion.

Well, I guess they do have a few dollars left over after the lobbying and propaganda. By design, the actual guns keep getting more lethal.

Well, we have done a lot of things to make automobiles safer. We have highway designs standards, crash testing, airbags, seat belts, crumple zones and traffic enforcement. The number of passenger miles is rising while fatalities and serious injuries are declining. What has been done to make guns less dangerous to innocents? Do you concede that innocents will continue to be killed no matter how many people walk around armed?

Thank you for your religious opinion. If we want to base our laws on your religious views, we will let you know,

What I love about your response is the rapier wit.

The Catholic Church is trying to force their position on birth control and abortion.. In history, they tried to force my ancestors to convert or die. '"tolerant" of evil' what evil? '"tolerant" of sin' Maybe your definition of sin isn't the same 'as long as they toe the party line' I guess you mean black republicans. Have we repressed any or or incarcerated any? conservatives actually incarcerated and killed civil right workers. Ever heard of cointellpro? 'completely intolerant of any opposition. ' Who have we killed? If you think criticism and ridicule is intolerant, then I plead guilty. But I live in a community with a conservative Catholic. We don't talk politics, but we get along. That is tolerance.

To begin with, you can drink gallons of kool-aid without a problem. It was the cyanide; and you don't need much. So your modification of the metaphor is illiterate. "Liberalism is the most intolerant worldview" is baseless opinion. Do you have any fact to back that or are so unable to think you are unaware of world views that are, by definition, intolerant. Catholicism comes to mind. Catholic means universal or encompassing. White Power, the successor to segregation is intolerant. Can you do more than spout slogans?

There was a time that religious conservatives believed that human vivisection was against god's law. Where would modern medicine be today? Do you know any conservative who refuse modern medicine because it require doctors to cut up dead people? There was a time when religious conservatives believed that child birth pain was a punishment from god. Natural childbirth may is an option for modern women. But how many of you think that women should be denied anesthesia? Religion is based on' faith, revelation and authority'. Science is based on reproducible experiments. The real oxymoron is a religious conservative scientist. Yes, I know a few manage to bridge that chasm.

Wow, I truly hope that one day I meet one. I could come up with a definition of an ideal liberal that would bear absolutely no resemblance to the screed we are commenting on. If he was talking about liberal politicians, I can agree on some. But the list of despicable conservative politicians is larger than the word limit in this comment section.

"millions in Africa have died because liberals needlessly insisted on banning DDT". DDT is banned in this country, but is used in Africa. We banned it here, because we have alternatives and it was destroying the ability of birds of prey to reproduce. The Bald Eagle was becoming extinct. But ranchers were shooting them anyway.. So maybe it didn't matter. Scientists and this liberal understand that DDT is extremely persistent and has serious health consequence., But it is valuable in the fight against malaria. It is a lie that DDT is banned world-wide. It is manufactured in this country for export. DDT impregnated mosquito nets are in common use. Wide spraying is discouraged because there are alternative with less consequences.