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To: B-Chan
I'm no Caesaropapist, but the idea that the government "shouldn't legislate morality" is just dumb.

On the flip side of this is those that start with the propositin that government "should legislate morality" and submit it that as sufficient to establish the authority of the federal government to enact anything they can find in the Bible.

3 posted on 07/14/2008 9:53:29 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
All laws legislate somebody's morality, to the detriment of someone else's preferred course of action.

It is the degree to which this should be done that is open to dispute.

6 posted on 07/14/2008 10:39:43 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (I've been waiting since 11/04/79 for us (US) to do something about Iran.)
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