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To: lentulusgracchus
Conservatives have to level the playing field first.

I'm open to ideas on how to accomplish this.

You're engaging in the best idea as to how to do that. The Internet will level the playing field like no other force in the history of communication, since the printing press. The nanny news media would keep us from seeing the Nick Berg beheading in all its gore, but with the Internet, we aren't going to be subject to Dan Rather's version of, "You can't handle the truth!"

Natural law is the basis of the Enlightnment and the American experiment.

The application of natural law to the American experiment had no problem with slavery, or the limitation of voting to white, property owning males. The American experiment is not a dead institution, and the extension of rights to those formerly on the "outs" with societal norms is continuing. At least that's the message that proponents of gay marriage have been successfully selling.

As for the rest of your post, I'm in full agreement. A classical education in Western Civilization is essential to an understanding of what our forebears lived, fought and died for.

While you might well imagine our nation's Framers coming back today, and having a cow over gay marriage, before they got to that point, they'd have an elephant over many other things. I was listening to an Australian today, who said that black people were more integrated in American society than Aborigines were integrated into Aussie society. One of the listeners at our table disagreed, but then he pointed out that it would be unthinkable for an Aborigine to be his country's Secretary of State. I reflected later than forty years ago, it would have been similarly unthinkable that we would have had Colin Powell as either Secretary of State, or as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Things change. This is just one of them.

257 posted on 05/18/2004 5:14:53 PM PDT by hunter112
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To: hunter112
Things change. This is just one of them.

Said the Visigoth to the Roman, as the Emporium burned. The Vandal, standing nearby, laughed out loud and agreed heartily. "Next!", he called out.

262 posted on 05/19/2004 4:03:54 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
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