Quote:If you marry someone who's political views are so far right or left of yours... well... good luck.

 

Not necessarily true. 

 

Your moral compass and everything else about your views and beliefs are so far off... why would you be married? Why would you want to try and raise a family believing so differently?

 

As Pirkster point out, and I quote, "if your religion is not politics, and you share in that religion you have a much better shot.  I agree you have to have the same values."

 

My moral compass doesn't come from my political beliefs, it comes from my Christian faith (which has only been a factor in the last 5.5 years) and in how I was raised. The same for my husband (he's been a Christian much longer than me.) At the base level we believe in the same things and we do hold the same values. Where we diverge is how politics should be involved in the lives of us and our nation. I believe government should not be involved in 99.9% of the crap they have their hands in, my husband believes they should be involved in things but not as much as the democrats think it should be.

 

A perfect example for us is abortion. Neither one of us believes it's the right choice with exception to situations of incest, rape and the life of the mother. Where we see different is he believes the government should get rid of Roe vs Wade and ban abortion with exception to the above listed. I believe the government has no business forcing that decision at all. It doesn't mean I believe abortion is right, it just means I don't believe the government should have any say in it.

 

-shrug- I mean... I'm all about mixing things up... but as someone just right of center... Anyone too much further right and she'll be condemning me to Hell. And if my sig. other is so too far left we'd fight about everything from taxes to Obamacare....

 

I suppose you could just not talk about who you vote for and the important grown up things in life...

that could make it work...

 

My father-in-law is one of the most conservative people I know. He would be considered far, far right when it comes to how he lives and what he believes in. But he votes democrat every single time. Why? I quote him in saying, "Because the rich man never did anything for me." I don't have the slightest idea where that thought even comes from since he worked for and retired from a telephone company that was owned by...... a rich man. His retirement and 401K stuff is invested and dealt with by...... rich men. For some reason that is his only reason for voting democrat even though they go against 99.9% of what he actually values. It's weird, but it is what it is. And my mother-in-law votes for whoever he votes for. She has no interest in learning about any of it. When I told her I was Libertarian she asked what it meant so I sent her a link to the Libertarian website that explains what it's all about. She was totally confused and didn't understand any of it because she doesn't educate herself on politics, period. That is a true low information voter.