[TheProdigalModern]

As evangelical Christians pretty much voted in the last election based on a Candidate's stance on the issues of abortion and gay marriage, I decided to create a moral dilemma to try to sort out which issue is more important.

Part I.
Let’s suspend reality for a moment, and create a vacuum in which this dilemma will take place.

1). The President actually has the power to do what he says he will, and he can, and he will. Period.

2). There are only two candidates running for President; their platforms are essentially centrist, and are completely comparable except on two issues: gay marriage and abortion. On these two issues, they are diametrically opposed.

3). Candidate A will ban all abortions, but he will legalize homosexual marriage and make it a hate crime to speak out against it the second he takes office; Candidate B will not only ban all gay marriage with no chance of repeal, ever, but she will also reinstate any sodomy laws that have been taken off the books--on the flipside, she will federally mandate that every state completely deregulate all abortion. (The Constitutionality of either of these candidates’ moves is not an issue, as the George W. Bush administration did away with the Constitution in 2007 since it provided potential terrorists with too much freedom.)

4). Voting is mandatory. There is no way to get out of it.

So, who would you vote for?

PART II.

Everything is the same as Part I, except that there is a third candidate running. He is also completely centrist, except that he is both pro-choice and pro-gay marriage, but with no plans to do anything about either--not because he is ambivalent about the issues, but because as a young man he was a Libertarian, and because of that party’s influence he believes that the government shouldn’t get involved in the personal lives of the citizens.

Which candidate do you vote for now?

[Nate]

I'd never vote for a centrist, though.

I'd take homosexuality over abortion.

[Nate]

Who cares about the quasi-libertarian... he'd never make it past the guys who actually made claims to do something. Nobody, it seems, wants to vote a guy in who doesn't intend to make the government enact such-and-such policies for such-and-such people.

Not that I support that, which is partially why I don't vote. I don't want people in there who have grandiose plans about all these new healthcare, social security, immigration, welfare, abortion, homosexuality, and national defense policies. Just govern, for once.

[SccHarpGirl]

That's a no-brainer. I'd go with the anti-abortion candidate any day.

Given the three, I might have go to with Mr. Apathy, not so much because I really think that gay marriage would be that bad for the USA, but because I think making it a hate crime to speak out against it when it's against my religion is setting a terribly dangerous precedent.

[TheProdigalModern]

Originally Posted by Nate

I'd never vote for a centrist, though.

Yeah, neither would I.

I don't like the extremes presented us from either the right or the left...not necessarily because they're considered extremes, but because they're just bad options. I just figured it would make choosing a little more harder than giving party options.

I'd take homosexuality over abortion.

Meh. Me, too, though the precedent that it would set as far as hate crime law goes is frightening.

[TheProdigalModern]

Ok, we can safely assume that there will never be three centrist candidates, so:

PART III

A Republican who will deregulate abortion

OR

A Democrat who will ban gay marriage.

[Qingu]

Originally Posted by Vershal

Ok, we can safely assume that there will never be three centrist candidates, so:

PART III

A Republican who will deregulate abortion

OR

A Democrat who will ban gay marriage.

As long as he wasn't a neocon, I'd vote for the Republican.

Edit: wait, just ban gay marraiges or also re-institute sodomy laws, etc?

[TheProdigalModern]

Originally Posted by Qingu

As long as he wasn't a neocon, I'd vote for the Republican.

Edit: wait, just ban gay marraiges or also re-institute sodomy laws, etc?

Etc. included