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To: aic4ever

You can’t have a free society without good morals. The Founders knew this. Just read what they wrote about religion in the public square.

True freedom is not the same thing as license.


3 posted on 05/10/2011 9:56:42 AM PDT by caldera599
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To: caldera599

“You can’t have a free society without good morals”.

This is tricky, isn’t it? I mean one person may view a bikini as immoral, another may not. One person may view drinking alcohol as immoral, another may not. However, if you are talking about essentially following the ten commandments... then I would agree.


5 posted on 05/10/2011 10:01:48 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: caldera599

I can understand looking at it that way. But I would ask where morals begin.

What is the first moral? Our founders intimated that it was that we were all created equal, therefore free.

Shouldn’t freedom be the first moral, with all other morals growing from it?


29 posted on 05/11/2011 11:59:29 AM PDT by aic4ever
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