I oppose abortion from conception onward, I am in agreement with Jefferson on the value of public education though I am convinced that public funding via voucher is a much better mechanism than what we now have and I oppose isolationist Foreign Policy as a general rule.
And yes we have had spirited debates, you, I and ole OWK.
And I am a Catholic but more than that I am a Christian which is why I reject out of hand any argument that God simply planted the seeds and then sat back and observed.
As a former "Operation Rescue" radical, I may have misunderstood your position on Abortion; or perhaps once-upon-a-time we misunderstood eachother. As to the rest... I miss ole OWK also. Those were good times.
Abortion is Murder, and the Founders believed that Murder Law (and, indeed, all Common Law) should be Legislated by the Sovereign States. This is the legal position at which I have arrived.
In other words, IN ONE YEAR, (1998) the Secular-Evolutionist Publik Skools generated TEN TIMES as many cases of Sexual Misconduct as ALL sexual abuses by Roman Catholic clergy COMBINED, FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS.
As a rigorous Ultra-Protestant, I don't intend to let the Roman Clergy off the hook for their manifold sexual abuses and institutional cover-ups; Sin is Sin, and so I am unimpressed by your claim to be the "One True Church" in the midst of much sodomy and pedophilia. But by comparison to the Roman Catholic Church, the American Publik Skool system is PEDERASTY CENTRAL STATION. At a rate of 100,000 sexual abuses per year, one might well consider the question: should Publik Skooling be Against the Law?
You think Vouchers would be a better "delivery system" for Publik Skooling. Me, I don't want Publik Skooling at all. I suppose that I would support Vouchers also; but only as a preliminary step to the total abolition of the Sodomitic-Evolutionist Publik Skool Gulags.
continuing on...
Nice to see you in the Forum.
Best, OP