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To: metmom
Ok... And how do you administer this Moral Purity test? How much more Federal law, and concomitant enforcement Branches, will we need to add?

What you describe are talking points and not policies that fit within our Constitutional framework. You can't force people to be moral by pointing a gun at them.

You can force them to be moral by not giving them a choice. No support from welfare. No excuses or blaming society. You earn your way or you live off the charity of private organizations.

You cannot mandate Patriotism either. Ask the Russians how that worked out for them. You can make your Country worth being proud of.

Reducing the FedGov to just its Art 1 Sec 8 powers cures two ills. It reduces spending and it gives us back our liberty.

We can handle the moral issues on our own from there.

572 posted on 11/15/2010 5:32:15 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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To: Dead Corpse

Biblical morals. Like the ones this country was founded on.

And there’s more like this where it came from.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bb0yRRGsLvsJ:www.free2pray.info/5founderquotes.html+founding+father+government+meant+for+moral+people&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence said. “[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.”

Noah Webster, author of the first American Speller and the first Dictionary said, “[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.”

Gouverneur Morris, Penman and Signer of the Constitution. “[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.”

Fisher Ames author of the final wording for the First Amendment wrote, “[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”

John Jay, Original Chief-Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court , “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”

James Wilson, Signer of the Constitution; U. S. Supreme Court Justice, “Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. . . . Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other.”

Noah Webster, author of the first American Speller and the first Dictionary stated, “The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. . . All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”

Robert Winthrop, Speaker of the U. S. House, “Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.”

George Washington, General of the Revolutionary Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, First President of the United States of America, Father of our nation, “ Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.”

Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence “[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

“Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness . . . it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof.” Continental Congress, 1778


575 posted on 11/15/2010 5:40:43 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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