Black or white?

Well, a blog can’t live on book reviews alone. I’ve got a post written up about Territory and a couple of other books I’ve read recently, but in the meantime, Rudy Giuliani scares me.

This ties in to the thoughts I’ve been having recently, trying to sort out my own political position in a way that I can identify and label and explain to other people.

I’ve decided just about everything boils down to this: I’m in favor of choice.

Abortion? Should be a choice. The woman’s choice. End of story, until men can be implanted with fetuses and carry them to term.

Getting married? Should be a choice, for two men or two women just as it is for one man and one woman.

Children should be educated in science, especially the theory of evolution so that they can choose whether or not they believe that man was created in a day despite substantial evidence to the contrary.

Children (hell, people) should also be educated on the principles of religions other than their own, and encouraged to question their own beliefs, often and thoroughly.

It does get more complicated when the choices of one person affect the choices, or ability to choose, of another, but I will generally fall on whatever side of the argument allows the greatest number of people the greatest amount of choice.

Pretty straightforward when you get down to it, I guess.