[Protoclown]

I have certainly become more liberal than I used to be, but I'm not so sure the board had but so much to do with it. I grew up in a conservative household, and as I got out into the world and went to college, I started developing a new perspective on life and made up my own mind about what I believed, rather than parroting my parents' beliefs as I used to do when I was younger.

This board DID make me reconsider my views on abortion though, thanks to people like Agent Burdock, Doopa, Miss Emma, etc...I used to be extremely and adamantly AGAINST abortion, but now I have seen and heard enough to change my mind. I consider myself to be pro-life (NOT anti-abortion) on a personal level, because I still abhor the idea of it and find that it is all too often used as a means of after-the-fact birth control. But now I am politically pro-choice, I have changed my mind completely in that area...and that is something I attribute ENTIRELY to these boards and the people on them, who made me stop and evaluate my beliefs and see things I had not even considered before, and for that I am grateful.