I dare you to zot this one, my bet is that you don't have the nerve to. ;-)
It's been fun all these years, my best wishes and love to you all. Warm Regards, Mike McCarthy, (AKA 'ferret,' my original FReeper account name)
Homosexuality isn't a wedge issue, it's a sin issue.
"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, 1798I'll go with his definition and opinion on the matter. There's nothiung mystical about it. Fact is, by your own definitions, you would have as much, if not more problem with them men who crafted that document, the constitution, than you do with those on this forum or its founder. There were much more strict about these principles than we.
Think about that for a moment.
The further we as a people stray from those basic principles, the less efrfective and meaningful that document will be in our lives, and the less liberty we shall enjoy For proof, I offer the conditions we see surrounding us this day.
Free Republic is helping to reverse those trends. Those who are steeped in those trends will resist it. But liberty itself is rooted in and dependent on the principles described by Adams.
Sorry you will not be around to allow more of that (irrespective of whatever other influences you may observe here) to rub off on you.
Give me a break if this is what you see happening.
We don't want liberalism to be calling the shots...for a variety of reasons, "lifestyle" being an important aspect, but in these times not the most pressing, which is why the libs brought the marriage issue to the fore when they knew President Bush has so many irons in the fire and they guessed they had a chance to advance their cause.
Most, if not all, of us are pretty much of a live and let live attitude except when the law is flouted and mocked, or we see outright wrong being done (which is often the case when libs have power and allow or impose certain things).
And by the way, being law abiding does not a facist make. Your use of that term is outrageous.
See ya.
You better be careful. They have made a Freep-Phatwa against you. Be afraid. Be very afriad. /s off
"The first sign of a nervous breakdown is taking yourself too seriously."
Naturally given the degree of *boor* you are, I'd say you're well beyond that first sign, whoeverinthehellyouare.
...& *somewhere* lost in complete madness.
Lemme see. You are posting this in your opus. That means you are leaving of your own free will, but also have posted here of your own free will for some time. Which means JimRob has no ability to force you to be here and adhere to his rules, unlike, say, Soviet gulags. You apparently fail to grasp the inherent absurdity in what you are saying.
The Constitution provides for freedom of association - and the same right of the Boy Scouts to exclude gays also extends to JimRob and his right to exclude people from his website that he doesn't want posting here, for whatever reason JimRob wants.
The only fascists I see are the folks who demand that JimRob give them a place on his website in the name of freedom of expression, which in effect obviates the equally important right of freedom of association. If you wish to go somewhere else on the web and post your rants, and the government tries to shut your website down or censor what you are saying, then I'll rise up to defend you. But what JimRob is doing on his site is just as much of a Constitutional right as is your right to express your opinion.
Klamath water rights for farmers issue.
With all due respect for Freepers, Klamath Falls was a big, big issue on the net and on talk radio even without FreeRepublic. You typed in your feeeeeeeeeelings with but one example and it's bogus.
If this doesn't happen, we will crush the FR and remove it like a malignant tumor before it destroys what we collectively hold dear
Speaking for myself and not as a Freeper, I am one who has been waiting for at least four decades for them (New Left pipsqueaks) to try. Bring it on! We have a free press after getting rid of the "fairness doctrine." Free speech is worth shedding blood for. Our free speech, their blood.
I Knew it was a conspiracy! It's dark in your world, isn't it.
Ah - the answer to freedom of association is censhorship and the rule of the mob. Who's the fascist, ferret? I used to think you had some redeeming qualities, but seeing you write this, I obviously was wrong. You really need to re-examine your anarchist premises, or at least quit pretending that it's about the Constitution when you would shred the Constitution to shut FR down if you don't like what is being said here.