CallaFirestormBW
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Does voting solely for the sake of religious beliefs count?
I don't think so. this assumes that the politician has promised the voter something, the voter responds by giving the politician support, and the politician actually does it.
No, it doesn't. The VOTER assumes the promise, and, unburdened by closer examination, responds by blind affiliation.
And another point here is that the written platforms of the party and candidate provide, in essence, a written 'contract' between that party/candidate and the constituency... and if you read the platforms at the candidate, state, and national level, you will note that there are specific platform points related to -nothing- but the enforcement of certain religious moral codes that are intended to be forced on the entire population regardless of the individual's beliefs or lack thereof.
While I would say that each individual has the rights to vote according to hir conscience, I also believe that the attempt to enforce some of the promises of party platforms defies the Constitutionality of those platforms and -is-, in fact, an attempt to cram the morality and beliefs of one religious group on the general population.
As an example -- despite it being a tenet of the temple to which I belong that people may form any familial structure that nurtures the growth of the individuals within, the "free" USA, and, in particular, the party platforms at the National, State, and individual level for one party/group, based on pressure from religious doctrine to which I do not ascribe, denies me the right to legally enter into any family that is not One Man, One Woman -- which flies -directly- in the face of my religious rights... on an issue that does not impact anyone outside of our own household (nor does my choice to have a same-gender mate, or multiple mates cause harm to anyone else!).
On the other hand, in a state where religion is irrelevant to the practice of governance, if a church required its members to be married One Man, One Woman, they could be that way... if another church allowed a man up to six wives and six women agreed, he could abide by his church's tenets on the matter... and if a person chose to have NO religious affiliation and have a dozen mates of mixed genders, and everyone agreed to that arrangement, there is NO rational, legal reason why such a thing could not be accepted -and- that proper legal arrangements to protect all individuals involved could not be established.
Calla Firestorm
< Message edited by CallaFirestormBW -- 10/3/2008 11:53:21 AM >
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Wasn't actually bothered by it or anything. 
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