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I heard this (again) on a re-run of the Daily Show.

"Religion is more of a choice than homosexuality." John Stewart.

This was while talking to Mike Huckabee (a conservative) who likes protecting religious rights.

Date: 2008-12-16 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kishiriadgr.livejournal.com
That was an awesome interview. Jon Stewart was making consummate sense.

From everything I've heard from Huckabee, he'd be such a great guy if he'd pull his head out of his butt on this issue. Conservativism isn't automatically a dirty word for me, and I like him as a *person* but yeesh, I wish he'd come out of his coma on this issue!

Date: 2008-12-16 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taxlady.livejournal.com
It was a good interview. I also like when John Stewart said something to the effect of "We can trust the government with weapons, but not to hand out food?"

Date: 2008-12-16 06:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kishiriadgr.livejournal.com
Federal government doesn't usually hand out food, not for at least two decades now. I would actually prefer to keep it that way since otherwise the procedure is: states give money to federal government-->federal government gives money back to states (and less than states gave to federal government)-->states give out food with less money than they gave to federal government.

I'm a big fan of letting the states handle as much as they can because they know their own needs and the federal government can't be relied on to do that. California gets *really* hamstrung by the federal government.

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