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To: steve-b
That's not a good analogy. Here's a better example:

A guy who regularly patronizes your restaurant has a serious problem with the IRS and is facing tax evasion charges. If he gets drunk one day and grabs one of your waitresses, he may very well face potential criminal charges for sexual assault, etc.

When he stands trial for tax evasion, I can assure you that the assault on your waitress will have absolutely no bearing on how his Federal tax case is adjudicated. The regular customer of yours who keeps his hands to himself will be no better off in tax court than the drunken lout . . . because the charges have nothing to do with each other even if they are strong indicators of the character of the person or people in question.

23 posted on 01/26/2009 1:30:12 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Your analogy fails because it involves two separate adjudicating authorities. Last time I looked, there weren’t two independent Popes making two independent sets of decisions for the Church.


24 posted on 01/26/2009 1:39:43 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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