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So you still have friends that have different beliefs than you? (piefed.social)
submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Maybe a different religion, or especially political beliefs seems to be a big deal-breaker. Do you still find it worthwhile to keep them in your life?

I do. I have e.g. Christian Conservative friends, and Atheist Liberal ones, etc. I enjoy each one for what they are. I mean, nobody is perfect! (like me ๐Ÿ˜)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If you're right leaning, I don't see how you can say you're friends with a gay liberal that the right doesn't think deserves to be able to marry who they love. I don't see how you could say you love your wife when the right thinks she shouldn't be able to divorce you or be able to get an abortion even if it results from sexual assault like in Idaho, Kentucky, or Louisiana.

I wouldn't consider anybody a friend that "leaned" towards making my life materially worse. Just because you cheer for the side that hates them just a little is no excuse. I think the people in your life deserve better friends.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

First, I'm not religious. So I don't have some sort of "moral" opposition to homosexuality. Follow laws, pay your taxes and have at the "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".

I'm sorry that a bunch of Christian radicals have soured your idea of a political thought process that valued personal freedoms and lowered governmental interference in its citizens lives. Marriage isn't something the government should be involved in the first place. The government shouldn't have a voice in whether or not people get divorced.

Fiscal responsibility, lowered government involvement with citizens day-to-day lives, and a focus on supporting your own citizenry in your own infrastructure are not things that care about who you love, what gender you identify as, or what sort of religion or not you want to practice. These things were added after the fact.