Could you marry someone of a different political persuasion?

..Or date someone who is at the other end of the political spectrum?



Do you find major differences between conservatives and liberals? (lifestyle, interacting with people, outlook on life, etc). I ask because I usually find conservative %26amp; liberal women to be signifigantly different in many ways. Sometimes in ways that really effect how they go through life..



OpinionsCould you marry someone of a different political persuasion?
As long as she believes the world is older than 5000 years and doesn't watch Glenn Beck.



Politics do not matter, but I couldn't stand someone who has their head in the sand.



I've never found a single person with the exact views as myself. However when I date someone our views tend to meld over time. I like debating in a civil way. It makes life more interesting.



EDIT: To the person below me: ';There is NO evidence supporting an OLD earth and much to imply a young earth';



There is mountains and mountains of evidence, and not one example that contradicts evolution or a planet which is billions of years old. I understand the chemistry, biology, and mathematics behind evolution. It is not a dissenting view, it is the only view that an educated and person can possibly have if they don't delude themselves. It's like not believing in cell theory, or the theory of gravity.



All I have ever seen in support of 'young' Earth is pseudoscience by hacks who are relying on their audience's ignorance.Could you marry someone of a different political persuasion?
No. I'm too much of a political junkie for that to work.
Uh yeah... I don't care that much. As long as she's not one of those wacky bible thumping cons, we wouldn't have a problem. I also need her to know evolution is fact because I don't like dating idiots.
It depends, if they are too into politics than no. but if they are not that into it that yea
I as an atheist dated a religious catholic conservative girl.



Didn't seem to bother us that much really
I did once around the time of Nam. He was a tree hugging liberal who burned a draft card. He called it conscientious objection, I call it cowardice. I met a real man and followed him to Nam. Glad I did.
My friend recently commented ';I find liberals to be annoying and conservatives selfish';. I don't really see a difference in personality but I can tell by the way they look. If you show me some one when they are tired or frustrated I can tell you their political leanings (in American politics). Libs and conservatives just get look different in those conditions. Its really quite neat,
Of course nobody will ever agree on everything, but I do feel it is important to at least share some of the same values, outlooks and morals in order to have a healthy relationship with anyone.
Sure can my husband and I are on the complete opposite side politically, we hardly ever see eye to eye and just agree to disagree.
Communists and socialists are the scum of the earth !
It depends why you hold that political persuasion,.



If your political views spring from deeply-held moral convictions, then most likely you would not tolerate a soulmate who advocated against those beliefs and fought against everything you believed to be good and proper.



I have seen enough of the gestation and birth process to know that life begins at conception and is human and sentient from the start. This, for anyone who understands it, would require that any medical procedure on a pregnant woman be aimed at preserving BOTH the mother AND the child. I could never consider being good friends with -- much less marrying -- an abortion activist.



If my wife had aborted our child, I would probably never have touched her again. Our marriage would have soon become untenable.



Take the evolution debate, for example, as posters answering this question have pointed out....



By their own admission they cannot tolerate a dissenting point of view in their households on certain issues. There is NO evidence supporting an OLD earth and much to imply a young earth, yet you get this ';evolution is a fact'; rhetoric a lot.



I had a dear friend who was Chinese and a devout communist, though she didn't really understand the term communism... , and we wanted very much to seek each other's affection, but there is a problem. She is an Atheist, and I was a Sunday School teacher at the time. It could never have worked out well. Who would teach the children why we have morals? or even what those morals are?



During that time, I met a young lady who had recently returned from teaching school for missionaries' kids in South America. We started chatting in various languages, and eventually we married. Today, we have a 5-year-old girl who is well-advanced in school and wants to give away some of her favorite dresses to children she will never meet in foreign countries, just because she wants them to hear about Jesus. I couldn't be more pleased.



No, I really don't think left could marry right, or vice versa, unless one or both were just looking for a political view to fit the way they wanted to live. Then, ANYthing goes.
As long as she cooks and cleans who cares
If a republican man dated a liberal girl it may work out. This year may be different, it seems mostly all liberals hate conservatives no matter what. Liberal females are more needy, Liberal men are more needy. Conservatives are more independent .
It really depends on if they are willing to listen. I make sure to listen to everything the people on the opposite side say in an unbiased manor, seeing it from their perspective before debating or agreeing with it. Therefore, I would expect my significant other to be able to do the same. As long as we can actually debate, and find a way to meet in the middle rather than arguing, it doesn't bother me much, because someone who realizes how to do this truly cares for America first, and their political preferences second. That's the way it should be.
Love doesn't have political aspirations.



I hope you know this. :0)