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  • Don McManus
    Living in fear of a fundamentalist sect is a dangerous thing.

    Look what the Christian Conservatives tried to do to the GOP and the religious Atheists are doing to the Dems.
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  • droptop
    Don McManus wrote:
    Living in fear of a fundamentalist sect is a dangerous thing.

    Look what the Christian Conservatives tried to do to the GOP and the religious Atheists are doing to the Dems.
    The Atheists are being associated with the Democrats and that won't buy the Dims many votes, personally I wouldn't covet that association because where would the Atheists go except the Dims?,,, but what did the Christian conservatives try to do or have done to the GOP? An example is worth a thousand words.
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  • Don McManus
    droptop wrote:
    Don McManus wrote:
    Living in fear of a fundamentalist sect is a dangerous thing.

    Look what the Christian Conservatives tried to do to the GOP and the religious Atheists are doing to the Dems.
    The Atheists are being associated with the Democrats and that won't buy the Dims many votes, personally I wouldn't covet that association because where would the Atheists go except the Dims?,,, but what did the Christian conservatives try to do or have done to the GOP? An example is worth a thousand words.

    In my opinion, the 'Moral Majority' as put forth by Jerry Falwell set the GOP back years with regard to Civil Liberties. From the early 80's continuing through to today, GOP Candidates are expected placate Christian Conservatives to gain office.

    I don't really have an issue with most of the moral positions of the Christian right, but I do have an issue with the pushing of some of these moral issues on the Federal Level.

    2 Examples:

    I attended a couple of county GOP conventions and one state GOP Convention during the McCain and Romney runs.

    Each and each speaker was apparently told to say two things.

    1. Life begins at conception.
    2. Marriage is between 1 Man and 1 Woman.

    These are fine personal beliefs, but they are not practical for a national campaign.

    1. If human life begins at conception there should, by definition, be no legal abortion permitted after conception. This is not a practical approach, though it is a valid moral position until your daughter or wife gets gang raped at the wrong time.

    2. The definition of marriage has tax and survivorship ramifications. I don't see anything in the Constitution about defining marriage, and I am fairly certain that the institution had been created by the late 18th Century. Amendments 9 and 10 tell me that the definition of marriage is either a power of the states or a right of the individual.
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  • mag00
    Marriage is a Religious tenet between a man and woman. If you want a legal contract, sign a will, set up a trust etc.

    I do not believe government should be involved and no tax breaks or penalties assessed based on a marital status, if we are all equal, we must all be treated the same.

    But I assure you, there is no greater relationship than that of a man and woman. No matter what you or anybody thinks about same sex relationships, that is all they ever will be, they are never going to be the superior relationship that a man and woman can achieve and that has been called marriage. No amount of changing the definitions is going to diminish the ultimate relationship of man and woman. The next great relationship would probably be the product of that relationship, being the child, a sacred achievement on any level. ;)
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