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PeteSC
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I'm from Britain, where politics is no way near as polarised as it appears to be in America. Political classifications are thankfully pretty continuous over here, but I disagree with much of this website and suppose that in America I'd be something of a liberal. I'm a Christian, but before someone calls me a "liberal Christian", I'd like to suggest that "Christian liberal" might be more appropriate. The former suggests that I'm liberal not in politics but in my Christianity, which I do not think I am, although I am willing to tolerate other faiths as long as they are willing to reciprocate which I have found, on the whole, they are (but, of course, I don't live in Saudi Arabia). I have strong socialist sympathies, but at the same time recognise and deplore the devastation wreaked upon my particular tectonic plate by some of the children of that ideology. I generally consider myself a pacifist. Otherwise, I am relatively socially conservative (no to abortion, homosexuality etc). I am against gay marriage and adoption by gay couples, but pragmatically believe that gays should be treated equally in the workplace and that, as Christians, we should probably leave people a reasonable degree of freedom to exercise their God-given free-will in deciding whether or not to sin.
I am a huge supporter of the NHS and have benefited considerably from it's existence. I support the stringent gun laws here in the UK.