Reply #32: Depends upon your definitions

[zipplewrath]

Is a person bad because of what they believe, or what they do? Many of these people don't personally do much at all in support of their "understandings". Vote, yeah, and the occasional political check I suspose. But I volunteered at a social service agency that was easily 50% right leaning folks. Their excuse of course was usually that it was a private/nonprofit and that was different than a government "welfare" agency. Never mind that we depended heavily on various government grants and coordination with government social service agencies. I found their political "beliefs" fairly shallow and had a rather casual relationship to their actions. They were "good people" who came to their decisions by what I considered to be fairly flawed reasoning. But their decisions outside of politics were rarely much different than mine.