The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

I`m pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.