This is an interesting thread. I actually like the idea of people stating a few of the things they are for/against and seeing how they rate themselves on the left/right scale. I think that self-rating is more likely to reflect the state you live in than where you actually fall on the scale. My own political beliefs haven't changed dramatically over the years, maybe a little, but I used to think I was conservative when I lived in New Jersey, and now that I live in Ohio, I feel like I'm practically a bleeding heart liberal compared to those around me! In reality, I'm independent and have voted pretty equally Republican and Democrat. I think overall I lean slightly left of center.
On some of those big issues:
Pro-choice (that's not pro-abortion...I think abortion should be the absolute last resort, but it should be an option).
Pro-capitalism (or whatever you want to call it...survival of the fittest economics perhaps? :-) In other words, if you work hard or get lucky and stumble upon a great product, good for you if you get rich).
Pro-keeping our noses out of other countries' business (I no longer have a clue whether this is a left or right view...basically, I'm in favor of greater emphasis on domestic policy and a foreign policy where we don't "help" countries that don't ask for help first).
Less government regulation of everything (we already have laws for most things that are important, we don't need more)
Anti-marriage (okay, that's a weird way of saying I'm for gays having the right to get married as long as anyone else can get married, but I don't know what exactly is so special about being married that we have to do it to get an assortment of rights...for example, I'm not married, so that means if something happens to me and I'm unconscious, my "next of kin" get to make all the decisions of what gets done to me...there is nothing I can do to override that and appoint a very close friend who knows me better than my family and who I trust more to make those important decisions and I don't think I should have to marry that person to get that right, and I'm pretty sure his wife doesn't want me marrying him either).
Pro-welfare reform...the kind of reform that gets people off welfare and into jobs, but without leaving them in worse shape than while on welfare. Basically, I believe welfare should be used to supplement a low income to a living wage and should reward those who at least try to get a job, even if it's a minimum wage job rather than punishing them. Reduce but don't cut off benefits when they first get a job until they are stable enough to do without. And if you don't have at least a part-time job or children too young to be in school (you can work part-time while kids are in school), after a certain amount of time to give you a chance to find a job, you don't get welfare. And I think welfare should cover birth control pills. I think people on both the right and left would see this as crazy, but it's my opinion.
In high school, I did earn the label ultra-moderate because I could never choose a side (in politics, I very often think both sides are wrong). I probably have started to lean a tad toward the left since then, but I also have some pretty extreme right views on some issues, so who knows?
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At least there is a chance they might crucify him. 
