What the Hell is This Doing in "Dr. Plagiarist?"

By Matt Kilanowski

What is a middle-of-the-road Roman Catholic doing writing for a more than liberal, semi-political left-wing publication? What meaningful political views do I have thatt I could contribute without being lynched?

What political views do I have?

I really don't pay attention to politics and how they effect me, and the morals that the Chrch says I should have but they never bother going into specifics so I don't know when I've sinned or taken the wrong side of an issue. Whew! Not that I want anything pushed on me anyway. I'm rather indifferent to many issues. I'm all for saving the planet, and preserving our future. But when I'm asked my view on something like homosexual marriage, I just ddon't give a damn. I got itno a huge debate about this. My opponent was a very right-wing Bible thumper, and she asked me whether I was for or against a law banning such marriages. I simply said that more constructive things could be done by the government.

She was furious. She pointed out numerous Bible passages and gave me multiple reasons why homosexual marriage was wrong with a capitol "W." I agreed, and told her that I would never be the groom at such a wedding (or the bride, for that matter.) My not-so-formidable adversary crossed her arms triumphantly, saying she was glad that I wanted to ban gay marriage. I told her that I said no such thing, which I didn't, and that the government should gorget about such trivial things and balance the budget or something. She failed to see why I was against it, and didn't want a law to ban it.

My explanation was simple; I won't do it, but I won't stop anyone else from doing it. I believe it is wrong, but many others don't share this belief. Therefore, I won't push my values onto others. My opposite stood agape. To be against something and not to force others to conform to that belief in order to make the country a "safe," morally correct place to live was a new concept. She was against homosexual marriage, her chuch was against it, so wasn't everybody else?

A round of applause for the first "no" in the audience.

This little debate summed up my political views. I'm all for the separation of chuch and state, and I think it's a good concept. Morals are for churches to deal with, and the state can go off and handle foreign policy and speed limits. If the government wants to suppress a homosexual's belief that they, too, can get married and raise a family, then it's about time for another revolution. It's not just the gays and lesbians that are being surpressed. If anyone reading this has failed to see that I'm saying the government should stop passing laws regulating ANY moral views, they're not bright enough to be reading this zine.

Also, I don't like the concept of political parties. It's just a way for people to not have to think. They just attach themselves to the party who's ideas most resemble their own, and willingly mark off whoever the party supports.

This is wrong! Each person running for office is different, with slightly different wasy of doing things. A candidate is not going to completely go along with their party. Vote for the person, not the party. This requires a little more research, but it would make this county a better place. So that's why I'm middle-of-the-road. People ask if I'm an donkey or an elephant, I say "independent." If they ask if I voted for Ross Perot, I tell them all of this, so don't ask.