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To: SteveH
We live in this country with a long established culture going back thousands of years. No one has a right to play Dr. Frankenstin with the culture. People who have children and grandchildren as I do are not so quick to try rash social experiments. There are real consequences for radical ideas, we have seen what has happened to the culture in the past thirty years. Have some consideration.
92 posted on 03/19/2013 4:07:25 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: cradle of freedom

No one is playing with your cultural values which you
are welcome to keep.

You are not required to try things you personally do not like.
Same goes for your relatives.

You seem to be arguing
for the enforcement of your own cultural preferences
on other individuals because other individuals do
things that you don’t like in the privacy of their bedrooms.

In the USA, preference is given to individual rights (in contrast to collective rights). Also the US legal
tradition is for a government which governs least on the theory that the power of that government is thereby restrained and the government then governs best (Thoreau).

Again, you argue for cultural conformity without demonstrating any tangible need, without consideration
for defining the boundaries of government power
over individual rights, and without really explaining
who gets to be “we” versus who gets to be “them.”

You presume everyone should simply adopt European
culture as superior. Isn’t that a highly conceited
worldview? What if you were not so fortunate
as to be born into a given culture? If Eskimos
were the majority, would you want a positive law banning
kissing in favor of rubbing noses?

If your basis for making or supporting laws enforcing European customs is based on the premise that the majority
of the people in the USA practice one sexual lifestyle or another, and so laws shoupld be passed enforcing the sexual lifestyle choices of that presumed majority, do you appreciate the dangers of the tyranny of the majority,
and how do you reconcile the two?


93 posted on 03/19/2013 4:43:35 PM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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