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To: JTN
So, homosexual marriage, polygamy and incest don't harm society?

Evidently you believe that morality and societal values are irrelevant and that our values actually infringe upon the "rights" of others. Should we all stop eating pork and force women into burkas because to not do so offends Muslims?

16 posted on 01/14/2006 4:30:47 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee
So, homosexual marriage, polygamy and incest don't harm society?

Homosexual marriage and polygamy, no. Incest of course is problematic if it produces children, but I said nothing about incest, now did I?

Your incoherent babble about eating pork and burkas actually works against your point. I don't want to be put under the thumb of the Muslim theocrats anymore than I want to be under the thumb of the Christian theocrats (like you).

TO MRS EDWARD A. ALLEN: from The Kilns

1 February 1958

I quite agree with the Archbishop that no sin, simply as such, should be made a crime. Who the deuce are our rulers to enforce their opinions about sin on us? - a lot of professional politicians, often venal time-servers, whose opinion on a moral problem in one's life we shd attach very little value to. Of course many acts which are sins against God are also injuries to our fellow-citizens, and must on that account, but only on that account, be made crimes. But of all the sins in the world I shd have thought homosexuality was the one that least concerns the State. We hear too much of the State. Government is at its best a necessary evil. Let's keep it in its place.

From The Letters of C.S. Lewis, pg. 473


24 posted on 01/14/2006 4:43:20 PM PST by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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