[Poohbah]

The essential purpose of the State is to protect the welfare of its citizens. If you consider the salvation of each inhabitant through belief in the true religion revealed by God part of that "welfare," then the State has an obligation to support the true religion and repress public dissidence against it

I will repeat what I said to the last seditionist piece of excrement that wandered onto this board.

21 years ago, I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Engage in intellectual onanism on this topic to your heart's content. Act on this sentiment at your peril.

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Oh wait, Pooh...you missed #97:

"The truth is, the Holocaust is right here. America -- which came of age practcing chattel slavery on Africans as well as ethnic cleansing and genocide on American Indians, has more than a few original sins to answer for. These are as nothing of course, compared to 40 million secret murders of the unborn and the present call for industrialised feedlots, cold storage, and slaughterhouses for human embryos, the better to convert human life to a profitable commodity. America is a mass grave."

Speaks for itself.