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To: Lane3 who wrote (24187)	7/15/2006 4:43:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541248

Could be. I was just thinking it's less likely that a liberal will be for a law curtailing behavior, where mere "moral" issues are at issue, and where there is no underlying practical reason for the law. I find that tolerance. Gay marriage, sexual positions, availability of contraceptives, a desire to insist on prayer in school, these sorts of things have no practical reason to be limited by law (or in the case of prayer, mandated), whereas at least the health related fiats of liberals with regard to smoking, and helmet wearing (assuming helmet wearing is a liberal issue, and I'm not sure it is)- have a rational relationship to scientific research on health, and could be a matter of good social policy (if you want to reduce deaths, illnesses and injury). I can't think of any moral imperatives liberals issue which aren't related to health. Maybe you can think of one. For the most part liberals seem pretty pro- free choice, unless it impacts public health in a very concrete way.

To: Lane3 who wrote (24187)	7/15/2006 4:58:26 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541248

I'm not sure that the sum total of tolerance on one side or the other is greater. It is intuitively obvious. Go to any community that voted overwhelmingly for Gore and compare those communities where they voted overwhelmingly for Bush. Go to any college town (Ames, Austen, Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Bloomington, Boulder, Champaign, College Station, Durham, Ithaca, Norman, Oberlein, Princeton, etc) and compare them to any community where they voted overwhelmingly for Bush.