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To: Albion Wilde
You are totally, completely ignorant of our nation's history.

Really? The Framers envisioned morality being legislated at the national level? Marriage laws? Church choices? At the national level? I suggest you go back and reread your copy of the Federalist Papers as well as the Constitution.

The states, as was their right, had established churches, with compulsory attendance in many cases.

Indeed and in many cases those state churches did exist after the Constitution was signed. No problem there

Moral laws were passed and recognized because the population was 99% Christian.

But they weren't passed at the national level because they were the business of the states under the 10th Amendment. My precise point. I am quite versed in the history of this nation of states so again I will state that the idea of legislating morality at the national level would be an affront to the Framers' vision

596 posted on 12/09/2006 6:42:01 AM PST by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears

At no time did I say or imply that the Framers passed laws on the national level controlling marriage or church attendance. Take your outrage elsewhere. The only reason such a law has been proposed today is because the Federal oligarchy is ever-ready to roll over any state-passed laws such as DOMA.


600 posted on 12/09/2006 7:04:21 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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