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To: Hildy
Not over the top at all IMHO. She's just trying to preserve values that make or break societies. I applaud her for it. It is what my wife and myself have also attempted to do in the raising of our children. That doesn't mean we want to force it on anyone...but the apartment is in her home for goodness sakes.

Such moral convictions cannot be forced...they must be freely adopted and accepted. That does not spare a society from the negative consequences of deparintg from such values. The founders of this nation, IMHO, with whatever other short comings, understood it and tried to articulate it.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798

124 posted on 07/31/2005 4:18:27 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head

What is your definition of "courtship?" If it's not dating, what is it?


128 posted on 07/31/2005 4:22:25 PM PDT by Hildy ("You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky)
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