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I'm a Republican, but I have a few items that I disagree with on their part. Two off the top of my head are these:
#1. The Environment. I think it is our responsibility as the most technologically advanced country and as humans to advocate responsibility when it comes to environmental issues. However, I think it should be done not with more laws, but with rewards and tax incentives. Companies to take extra steps to create and sell environmentally friendly goods, cars, fuels, etc. should be given heavy tax incentives to do so.
#2. Gays. If marriage is a religious institution, it is not the government's place to tell us how to practice. Therefore it should be up to the various religions to decide whether they want to honor marriages between gays. That being said, I think gays should be able to have civil unions, as well as heterosexual couples, should they choose so (in the case that they do consider marriage a religious institution and they aren't married). In other words, I think the word "marriage" should be stricken from laws on the books, and all marriages and all civil unions categorized as "civil unions" according to the government. If "marriage" is to be reserved for religious institutions, let only the church and members of these unions refer to them as "marriages".
I'm a Republican, but I have a few items that I disagree with on their part. Two off the top of my head are these:
#1. The Environment. I think it is our responsibility as the most technologically advanced country and as humans to advocate responsibility when it comes to environmental issues. However, I think it should be done not with more laws, but with rewards and tax incentives. Companies to take extra steps to create and sell environmentally friendly goods, cars, fuels, etc. should be given heavy tax incentives to do so.
#2. Gays. If marriage is a religious institution, it is not the government's place to tell us how to practice. Therefore it should be up to the various religions to decide whether they want to honor marriages between gays. That being said, I think gays should be able to have civil unions, as well as heterosexual couples, should they choose so (in the case that they do consider marriage a religious institution and they aren't married). In other words, I think the word "marriage" should be stricken from laws on the books, and all marriages and all civil unions categorized as "civil unions" according to the government. If "marriage" is to be reserved for religious institutions, let only the church and members of these unions refer to them as "marriages".