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To: xpertskir
God has given us the physical ability to live with whom we please.

God has given us the physical ability to murder whoever we please.

In other words, physical ability does not correspond to moral licaity.

Who is the government to take that away?

Who is the government to criminalize any evil?

The purpose of the State is to promote the common good. Criminalizing various evils falls under that principle.

171 posted on 07/21/2006 10:35:52 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Aquinasfan

We've certainly come a long way from the time when Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the least dangerous branch. He assumed the courts would operate only within the bounds of the Constitution. If they did that, they'd be about as busy as the Maytag repairman. Hamilton also assumed a populace that understood the Constitution and respected its jurisdictional boundaries.

I doubt that Hamilton (or Madison, or Jefferson...) envisioned this:

Hey judge! I wanna sodomize my boyfriend! Wait, scratch that...I wanna sodomize five boyfriends. I want you to make this a federal issue and get rid of my state's anti-sodomy law.

Hey Judge! They just passed an ordinance in my county against serving alcoholic beverages in strip clubs. I'm real pissed off about it. I thought about campaigning to have the commissioners repeal the law, but I might lose. So I want you to declare federal hegemony over my county and get rid of that law for me. I'm sure I have a constitutional right to drink booze while simultaneously watching a girl strip nekked up there on a stage. I can't find it actually written out in the Constitution, but I think it's in one of them auras or whatever that surrounds it. Anyway, get rid of that law for me.


172 posted on 07/21/2006 11:07:43 AM PDT by puroresu
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To: Aquinasfan
The purpose of the State is to promote the common good.

Is that you, Hillary?

173 posted on 07/21/2006 11:09:22 AM PDT by darkangel82 (Higher visibility leads to greater zottability.)
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To: Aquinasfan
"The purpose of the State is to promote the common good. Criminalizing various evils falls under that principle."

Ok, my argument was flawed!

Cohabitation is an evil? LMAO
174 posted on 07/21/2006 11:19:05 AM PDT by xpertskir (Mccaine Lieberman '08(democratic ticket))
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