Why I'm Rooting for the Religious Right

Opinion Journal ^ | May 5, 2005 | James Taranto

[Treader]

Cat got ya tongue?

[parmaright]

you forgot about the harm exception.

[Michael Barnes]

To #61,,hit abuse and get that removed and post to who you intended...

[EGPWS]

1.- They want people dependent on subsidies, so they vote them.

2.- They promote hedonism: "it's all about me; if a baby is an inconvenience, I eliminate him"; "have a lot of sex"; "try same gender partners, it's normal and gives a lot of pleasure"; etc. Bottom line "do whatever you the f@ck you want to do and leave me alone; I just want to be happy". The more hedonists there are, the more votes they have.

3.- They support ONU, Greenpeace et al; they all do the same; they are platforms of power that are not even elected by the people.

Your name isn't by any chance Kennedy is it? ; )

[EGPWS]

you forgot about the harm exception.

Ohhh, there are exceptions?

[EGPWS]

Cat got ya tongue?

Tic...tic...tic...

Treader, me thinks so! ; )

[parmaright]

oh you must have missed that post. i gave you that and amended. remember, setting fires, building bombs, etc. things that harm others aren't about your personal freedom but of course, you knew what i meant. i gave it to you anyway. i remain opposed to the government meddling in my personal affairs that harm no one. that is because i am a conservative.

[EGPWS]

I also don't get the whole gay thing.

Nice try NOS....

You don't watch much C-SPAN do you.

And of course living in Louisiana and not California or Massachusetts, you may be missing what the "gay thing" is all about. The "gay thing" most likely isn't in your face in Louisiana.

[EGPWS]

i remain opposed to the government meddling in my personal affairs that harm no one.

OK, I see your point of view. It took me a while, however thats just the way I am.

I'm conservative too, however I would never argue the laws of the land once they are in place, however I would at times fight to change laws if I deem them invalid. After all, if I decide to give my Husky a fur cut with the power mower, run someone off the road because I feel they are infringing on my personal rights by being in my way, or decide to do yard work in the nude to the neighbors objections, I would think twice before doing such things because my "morality" tells me it is wrong!

I certainly would hate to impose my morality values on anyone else however.

If morality, even if it is religion driven, is lost in lawmaking then we all will be lost as a society.

[rikkir]

"I also don't have any real strong opinions on abortion. But have to admit, if I got a woman pregnant, I'd probably suddenly become pro-choice."

I hope you are being facetious.
If not you might want to sit down and have a very long think about that statement.
If you have unprotected sex with a woman, not your wife, and she becomes pregnant, what you are saying is that your total lack of responsibility for the result of an action that you participated in willingly would put your conscience on hold long enough to kill the child you helped create.
Could you perform the abortion? If not, why not? You would be asking the woman that you loved enough to have sex with to allow a stranger to put a foreign object in her body and rip a living being from her womb.
Why not let the child be born, and after he or she came into the world, just smother it with a blanket, stick scissors in it's brain, or better yet let the child starve to death. I mean after all, we've been told that's a "peaceful" way to die.
I wish the argument about abortion was discussed in just these terms. I know it sounds harsh, but maybe actually seeing the horror (if even in the mind's eye) of what an abortion is, might change the cavalier attitudes of people who make statements like the one you posted.
You will notice that I did not bring religion into the reason that the act of abortion is wrong. However I am a Christian, and I will pray that you don't get someone pregnant until you are ready to accept the responsibility.

[Treader]

I don't know what you are talking about. Thanks for da pancake dough...

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

It's good when you know you hold the key
It's good when you know your on the winning team
The sick will be healed, the blind will see
It's the power of God, and its what this world needs

[Treader]

"Morality." Are ya feeling that kinda pressure? From whom, bucko? Is your pressure coming from a fissure within traditional family values or a sense of guilt from straying or just not knowing? I found that Doing the Next Right Thing, with the next right thing following the last- brought serenity to my troubled heart, mind & soul. Still don't do it very well- it's a hard practice for the first 60 years or so- and my dumb azz only has about 12 days all put together, lol... give it a shot, life is surprisingly longer than our daily experience could dictate...

[Treader]

Why don't you Mikey? Give the Mod's a rip ta strip- and then tell myself how to post and to whom- again...boyo...

[k2blader]

On threads like this one, the anti-"religious right" types will keep a low profile or won't show up at all. But you can find them on every Robertson/Falwell/Keyes thread ironically revealing their own self-righteousness, closed-mindedness, and hypocrisy.

[GloriaJane]

The left is the one who pushed and lowered decency standards on broadcast media. They didn't let the market decide.

And they didn't stop there. They push and lowered decency standards in every corner of our lives. I for one am ready to stand my ground.

[GloriaJane]

Now that's the thing dems just can't ever get right. We don't have a separation from Church and State. We never have had.

Congress can't establish a religion. In other words Congress can not make a religion.

But there is no such thing as a separation of, or from Church and State.

[jwalsh07]

You and Taranto monozygotic? Based on this article, I'd have to say Yes!

[bray]

I'm all for Christians being Christians. As long as they don't try to make me be a Christian.

So when did Christ die and you become God?? Spreading the word is what we do. The Truth is the Truth and that is what we believe. W/O Jesus as your Savior you are condemned to Hell which nobody should want.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[bray]

...and usually the Catholics and the Southern Baptists get it in the teeth.

Aint that the truth. The secular Conservatives are a strange breed. At least you can understand the lefts hatred, but our Fundamental Atheists are hard to figure.

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