Tickle, you identify yourself as a “Catholic for Mitt,” using your church affiliation to lend credibility to your support for Romney, then you protest my citing the Catholic Church Catechism statement that “civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic material”? http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm
Does the term cafeteria come to mind?
Then you absurdly ask: “Would you prefer we break down people’s doors, monitor their lifestyles and jail them for anything contrary to your personal interpretation of religion?”
Easy answer: no.
But social conservatives do believe that Marriott and other white-collar porn peddlers should be held accountable publicly for their sale of porn and prosecuted in instances in which what they sell meets the legal definition of obscenity (which is a federal crime regardless of the age of the user).
And we believe that a guy who sits on the board of a white-collar porn peddler for a decade and never says a word about it, then says porn flicks were responsible for the VA Tech shootings, should also be held accountable publicly.
And neither even remotely approaches your resort to the hackneyed “Taliban” and “communist” labels in a feeble attempt at demonization.
Now, I want to make this clear, I do not support Mitt Romney. I personally believe that his presence on a ticket will hurt us, because well, this country is biased against Mormons.
But as for attacking a Romney supporter for disagreement on this issue. I am a Catholic. But, I also have a defined belief about what government is and is not supposed to be. Government is not meant to be the morality police. This country started going down the road to perdition 100 years ago when the federal government decided it had the business to decide what people did in their personal lives,
You know, the Vatican also says that theoretically we are supposed to be predisposed towards labor and the poor. I take issue with that too.
The term Taliban is a perfect description for extremist kooks who make the rest of us look bad.
Preachy, self righteous, and all too willing to have the government regulate people’s everyday lives.
A traditional Catholic priest, Fr. Malachi Martin, was a conservative libertarian. He was solidly moral, yet he understood the dangers of government intrusion into people’s private lives. This is something more than a few of you can’t grasp. It’s fine and dandy as long as you are the ones dictating morality, but get a Muslim or atheist in power and you’ll be the first to cry foul. You cannot see the big picture; the forest for the trees.
All of this will be lost on you of course, for several reasons. However the most telling one comes up after a review of your posts. For the 15 months, since April 2006, most all of your posts have been bashing Mitt Romney. THAT is a sickness which won’t respond to any kind of logic whatsoever.