Don't know if you still need more answers, but here goes:
1. What are your views regarding sex outside of marriage?
I'm fine with it. Marriage is a social compact--and it works well for my wife and me--but it's by no means a universal thing. Some people never get married. Others get married more than once. In the meantime, most people have several sexual partners over the course of their life. Why waste our time on guilt? Sex is good for you.
2. What are your views regarding homosexual or lesbian relationships?
I think this is sort of like asking "are you okay with black people?" It shouldn't be an issue any more. My two best friends are gay, and live together. I wish the world could see that their love is as beautiful as any heterosexual couple's.
3. Wht are your views on abortion?
My views on this are complicated. I'm not comfortable saying that a fetus is a life or is not at any one stage of development. There are easy extremes--a blastocyst is pretty clearly not a life, and a third-trimester fetus pretty clearly is--but that in-between stuff is a lot harder. In truth, my personal views on this changed a lot when my wife became pregnant with our daughter. At this point, I can honestly say that if we ever had an unwanted pregnancy, abortion would not be an acceptable choice to me. With that said, I don't want to tell others how they should make this moral choice. I guess that adds up to pro-choice--since I think government should stay out of it.
4. Do you believe in moral absolutes (ie: that there are some things that are always right or wrong regardless of culture or religion)?
Yes--and this is another tricky one. Is there value in relativist thinking? Sure. But there ARE moral absolutes. Killing is wrong. Female genital mutilation is wrong. Abuse of children is wrong. Just to name a few.
5. What, in your view, is the purpose of life?
For each of us to, in our own way, make the world a better place.
6. What is your view of the Bible and what role should it play in our lives?
I'm not religious. But to deny the role of the Bible in Western thought is ridiculous. Transcendentalism and abolitionism would have been impossible were they not paired with evangelical christianity. I think the so-called "Christian right" has co-opted the Bible and perverted what are its true, core teachings in the New Testament. If you listen to Pat Robertson, you'd think Christ went around telling us to judge people for their sexual orientation and arguing for lower taxes. I think people should read the Bible for themselves, and take from it what moral truths they can, but not be afraid to discard the rest. It's a pretty old book, written by humans a long time ago.
7. Do you go to church? If so, how often?
No.
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