Political Spectrum Analysis

Sociology 205
Professor Rogers
January 29, 2013
Political Spectrum: Where I Fit In After carefully reviewing what it means to be a liberal or a conservative, I have found that I have mixed beliefs depending on what the issue is. With that being said, I still tend to find myself leaning a bit more to the left, than the right, making me fall into the 10.9% of the population who consider themselves to be slightly more liberal. What I like about the liberal point of view, is that they are accepting of alternative lifestyles, and the overall freedom to be who I choose to be, and live how I choose to live; regardless of someone else’s traditions. What I dislike about the conservative point of view is their special interest in religion, as well
In my personal opinion, I believe the death penalty should be broadened, if anything. People who commit acts of heinous violence have no place in society, (besides prison society) which is costly to us taxpayers, who are also the victims. Murder isn’t the only heinous act. I consider pedophilia to be a heinous act of violence. Whether pedophilia is a mental illness or not is beside that fact, because the torment the victim is left to suffer with for their entire life is reprehensible. These people get a slap on the wrist, and are back out on the street to commit the same heinous acts over and over again. I do believe in the death penalty, and I most certainly believe these people should be on the list to receive
I am all for gay rights. Although I am heterosexual, I would march along beside gay rights activists. Two men/two women being allowed to marry each other, and receive the same benefits a heterosexual person would get for being married is not going to hurt me, or my child in any way. Sure it might be new to us, and sometimes new things can be scary. (Civil Rights and Women’s Rights were scary to those generations, but it made a better world for all of us.) The only opposition I hear almost always has “the Bible,” “God,” or “religion” as the reason why it shouldn’t be passed. Church and state are supposed to be separate, so religion and anything to do with it, is not an acceptable reason as to why this should not be allowed. I am also pro-choice. Women have fought so hard for our rights, and abortion is something that affects the woman’s body/mind, so she should have the right to choose. If she chose not to have an abortion, she is the one subjected to a lifetime commitment that she may know she is unable to fulfill. Why would a woman want to bring a child into the world when she knows she can’t provide for it, and daddy isn’t going to be there? Birth control does fail sometimes, so just because she got knocked up, doesn’t always mean she was being irresponsible. Or why would a woman want to bring her rapists child into the world to be