1. Standards for admissions to universities, fire departments, etc. should be lowered for people of color.
Disagree. While this might help some people on to programs that they otherwise wouldn't get on, it leaves other people (of color) who would deserve the position anyway under suspicion of not really deserving their position.
2. Bilingual education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion in English, is good for them and for America.
Don't know. Bilingualism in general is good, a proper command of English is better (if living in an Anglophone country), as to whether one works against the other I can't say.
3. Murderers should never be put to death.
Don't know. It works well enough in Europe, but I've heard some Americans argue for "American Exceptionalism" (America is an exceptionally violent and depraved nation that needs equally violent legal penalties) for which I have some sympathy.
4. During the Cold War, America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze.
Somewhat academic now.
5. Colleges should not allow ROTC programs.
Disagree. I can't see the problem.
6. It was wrong to wage war against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.
Disagree. However, also somewhat academic now.
7. Poor parents should not be allowed to have vouchers to send their children to private schools.
Disagree. I am in favour of selective education and my degree of support increases exponentially when it is a question of giving extra life chances to the poor.
8. It is good that trial lawyers and teachers unions are the two biggest contributors to the Democratic Party.
As a non-American I don't care.
9. Marriage should be redefined from male-female to any two people.
Depends. Christian Marriage, for example, is a religious sacrament; it's up to the churches to make their own rules. However, I can see no legitimate reason for the state to withhold the right of marriage from gay couples.
10. A married couple should not have more of a right to adopt a child than two men or two women.
Depends whether the two men or two women are married - see above.
11. The Boy Scouts should not be allowed to use parks or any other public places and should be prohibited from using churches and synagogues for their meetings.
Disagree and am puzzled by the question. Why shouldn't they use these places?
12. The present high tax rates are good.
High taxes are never good. By continental European standards, American (and British) taxes are not high.
13. Speech codes on college campuses are good and American values are bad.
A silly question - as if one had any bearing on the other. By speech code, does this mean, for example not using racial epithets? Is Mr. Prager then saying that racism is an American value? It's with this question that the silliness of the quiz's bias is most obvious.
14. The Israelis and Palestinians are morally equivalent.
Partly agree, although I don't know quite how you measure this.
15. The United Nations is a moral force for good in the world, and therefore America should be subservient to it and such international institutions as a world court.
More of Mr. Prager (and American conservatives') silliness. The UN could be a moral force for good, and American leadership (not subservience) could help make this happen.
16. It is good that colleges have dropped hundreds of men's sports teams in order to meet gender-based quotas.
I don't know enough about this to answer.
17. No abortions can be labeled immoral.
Always for me the most difficult of questions. Immoral, unethical and illegal and all quite distinct ideas. I think we choose our morals, civil society sets our ethics and lawmakers make law.
18. Restaurants should be prohibited by law from allowing customers to choose between a smoking and a non-smoking section.
Depends. The issue should be is a non-smoking space available - a real non-smoking space, not a few tables set slightly apart that tobacco smoke can still reach.
19. High schools should make condoms available to students and teach them how to use them.
If the high school students are over the age of consent then I agree.
20. Racial profiling for terrorists is wrong -- a white American grandmother should as likely be searched as a Saudi young male.
This is for me a techical operational decision, not a political 'issue', so I am happy to leave it to the security experts.
21. Racism and poverty -- not a lack of fathers and a crisis of values -- are the primary causes of violent crime in the inner city.
Clearly all of these things play a part.
22. It is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, "God bless you" at their graduation.
Disagree about the wrong, don't know about the unconstitutional.
23. No culture is morally superior to any other.
Partly disagree. Some ideas are better than others (freedom and democracy over tyranny) and some cultures are more at ease with this than others, but it is the idea that is superior, not the culture.
Interestingly this quiz is supposed to be about discovering of you are liberal (although the questions were framed by a conservative and the bias shows). America uses the word 'liberal' in a unique way. However going by the definition that the rest of planet Earth uses:
If you mainly
agreed, you are probably a
socialist or a
radical.
If you mainly
disagreed, you are probably a
conservative.
If you mainly said,
'don't know', 'not sure' or
'depends' you are probably a
liberal in the real meaning of the word.
I am probably a liberal.