[WalterSkinner]

I have been a Republican activist most of my life

..you must really be miserable in that the party of Reagan heretofore has had the Religious Right as its heart.

If your ilk, the libertines, liberterians, RINOs and everybody else who considers themselves Republicans are successful in driving religious people from the party--you will be left with Democratic government and you will be twisting in the wind...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I vote WITH the religious right.... see #923 and apologize to me... or eat crow...

[patriciaruth]

Any way the two of you can agree that freedom of religion means that both of you can support candidates from the same party without betraying your other beliefs?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

In the Declaration of Independence, the Americans appealed both to natural law and rights on the one hand, and to British constitutionalism on the other,...

The very idea that human beings have individual rights not subject to the whims of an earthly monarch, but subject to the laws of Yahweh, is directly from Moses.

Mosaic Law (of which the Ten Commandments is just a part) is the foundation of Western Civilization. Genesis is the primary focus of the Declaration of Independence, from where our Constitutional rights are derived.

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...”

“We, therefore, the Representativers of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our intentions,...”

The Ten Commandments are the foundation of our judicial system.