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To: tpaine
And, -- that your efforts to codify your moral beliefs into law is ~very~ divisive to our rule of constitutional law.

Only secular moral belief are codified into law? Or "you can't legislate morality"?

All legislation has a moral component Paine. Eliminating seamoles belief system is a tad authoritarian if you get my drift.

159 posted on 06/11/2004 3:45:02 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07; seamole; everyone
seamole wrote:

I believe fertilization outside the body (in-vitro fertilization, or IVF) is gravely immoral, --

Believe what you like, but I would suggest that for your own emotional health, you should realize that your beliefs are not shared in any way by a great many of your peers..
-- And, -- that your efforts to codify your moral beliefs into law is ~very~ divisive to our rule of constitutional law.

Only secular moral belief are codified into law? Or "you can't legislate morality"?

Yep, that is exactly the thrust of our Constitutions "rule of law". NO religious tests for office, and "Congress shall make no law" pretty well says that the precepts/'establishments' of religions are not to be respected by government codemaking/legislating.

All legislation has a moral component Paine. Eliminating seamoles belief system is a tad authoritarian if you get my drift.

Sure, criminal law is based on an ancient moral code; the golden rule, common to ALL cultures & beliefs, even paganism & atheism. -- In that we agree.

Seamole seems to want ~his~ particular religions morals to be codified. -- 'No way', if you get my drift.

168 posted on 06/11/2004 8:12:08 PM PDT by tpaine (The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being" -- Solzhenitsyn)
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