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To: Stagerite
More BS.

See my #18.
20 posted on 05/09/2004 4:38:54 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: jackbill; Coleus
If you follow the rhetoric of secular humanist "Separation of Church and State" mythology, they seem to think that everything the Catholic Church prohibits on moral grounds should be legal ( to avoid imposing church teaching ). That would make murder, stealing, and rape legal because the church forbids them on moral grounds.

What they seem to have missed is that the Catholic position has been that ethical teachings of this type can be KNOWN and understood rationally and logically as part of natural law ethics. And, indeed, the non-Christian Hippocratic Oath prohibited abortion. Many non-Catholics also understand such practices to be morally wrong. Pro-life ethical philosophy is not exclusively Catholic. The NJ senator (Kenny) has completely misunderstood what is involved with these issues. Beyond that, "Separation of Church and State" is not in the Constitution. They are Jefferson's words in a private letter about a Baptist controversy in Virginia. One wonders where this Kenny fellow studied Law, History, and Philosophy. If he ever did.

25 posted on 05/09/2004 4:50:58 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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