I'll bite. I feel similarly and got the same results. Welfare subsidizes low wage employers and makes work relatively less valuable. People are people. Present

I'll bite. I feel similarly and got the same results. Welfare subsidizes low wage employers and makes work relatively less valuable. People are people. Presented with opportunity, I believe most people will flourish. Incomes aren't static in healthy markets on an individual basis. "Poor people" somewhat implies that the state of being "poor" is an immutable fact some people's lives, that their circumstances can't change. That's a pretty bleak and naive view of the world. There are many things that rob certain sets of people of the opportunity to flourish. For the most part, welfare probably isn't very efficient at addressing those problems. Again, why must we categorize people like this. All men ought to be treated equally before the law, no? This is a tenet of Western civilization. So, what does race have to do with abortion? People are people. It doesn't do our society much good to bucket people into groups to make a political point. If I didn't believe human life started at conception, I wouldn't have a problem with abortion. Yet, I do. So, unless I want to start trying to compute the relative value of one person's life to the well-being of another, I choose to draw a clear line. Abortion willfully takes an innocent life. To me, that isn't right. But, if we really must muddle this moral conundrum with race, I'd like to mourn the disproportionate and overwhelming loss of black lives due to aborted pregnancies. Again with the buckets. I don't feel much differently about homesexuals or transgender people than I do hetero Joe Schmoe. They should share the same rights that we all ought to enjoy. Of course, if a gay cake maker chose to only serve homesexual celebrations, I wouldn't sue him for not serving Mr. Schmoe's wedding. He can simply take his business elsewhere. A positive right for one citizen means compulsion for another. I don't believe it's morally acceptable to coerce someone into doing something against their conscience. I don't care which way the coercion goes and whether one side is more closely aligned with social norms or not. Please don't confuse Conservativism with bigotry. Overall, we should be charitable to those who disagree with us. We can all learn something from one another when we do. Frankly, I feel your comment was a bit inflammatory, a bit like asking "so, when did you stop beating your wife?" You seem to imply that he's either a bigot or not really Conservative.