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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Understand, there are elements, and powerful elements in these movements that want a theocracy and a theocrcay that mirrors thier beliefs. These are Catholics as well as Protestants. And they will find scholars that will twist the Constitution just as liberals have twisted it for decades.

I believe that the change in our society musnt't take place in our laws , but rather our churches. Once they convince the flock to live right, then it will naturally flourish into the culture. No with everyone, but a majority. The chruch has lost it's way with its followers and has lost their own moral authority. Once they regain that, they will never have to worry about the culture at large.

43 posted on 04/25/2005 11:21:12 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks
there are elements, and powerful elements in these movements that want a theocracy and a theocrcay that mirrors thier beliefs. These are Catholics as well as Protestants.
Elements there may be, and even powerful ones within their denominational spheres - but the secular and antireligious journalistic establishment compares in influence with all of them put together. That is a very stable situation, IMHO - and therefore the disunity among the denominations precludes the establishment of any of them (or of Islam, if OBL is reading). Indeed, as I said, there is little doubt that the trend has been not toward established religion but toward established irreligion.

If someone sneezes and the president says "God bless you!" the ACLU tries to make a court case of it. Recall the fatuous attempt to get the courts to enjoin the president not to refer to God in his second inaugural address. The court might have considered it, IMHO - if not for the fact that such an injunction could not possibly be enforced. The possibility of having a judgement flouted without consequence - very publicly and probably humorously - might tend to focus a jurist's mind . . .


44 posted on 04/25/2005 3:26:36 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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