[MichiganMat]

I was walking to lunch yesterday and was thinking about this liberal/conservative dichotomy and it dawned on me: I identify most with other Liberals, but on the whole I live a pretty conservative life. My personal values to be against drug use, abortion, "radical" lifestyles, and most of those things I see as being destructive to humans in general. But I also don't think people should be forced into things, into living a certain way, and I think that some people even need to have their hands-held when dealing with things like debt and divorce because, on the whole, there are plenty of man-children amogst us that just don't know how badly they are screwing themselves.

Will I give my children the right to choose the life they want to live? I know that I may resist changes in them as any father would, but I hope I can remember that my kids are Gods children as well, and He doesn't intend for me to make up their minds for them, or for anybody else I have in my life.

See, even a Liberal like me can believe in God, just not a God of hellfire and damnation.