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To: bvw
The spin Obama will use on Mitt is: No abortions, No single moms, No sex without marriage FOR WOMEN. THIS WILL NOT FLY.

You cannot legislate morality.

Nothing you wrote will be a winnable argument with the general election voters.

28 posted on 01/18/2012 7:12:06 AM PST by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

(1) Do you know that single motherhood has been a crime for hundreds of years and more, back to English Common Law, and in our own common law and statute law until only very recently, right? Do you know what that crime is called, and WHY it was a crime?

(2) Why let Obama determine HOW and WHAT our campaign messages are? Is Obama our King?

(3) Please know that the phrase “You cannot legislate morality” is (a) false, (b) a strawman for avoiding needed discussions of morality, and (c) a propaganda motto of those forces who would destroy our society in order to raise up some imagined secular utopia. It is a motto of the pro-abortion movement, of the Marxists, the social deconstructionists, the anarcho-liberatians, the sexual libertines. It is utterly false.

ALL legislation and law is based in morality. All law is a form of moral code. A moral society is a law-abiding society, and an immoral society devolves into chaos and tyranny, into both lawlessness and tyranny at the same time.

Without a respect for, an appreciation and understanding of morals and how good laws are moral laws, how some parts morality must become parts of law in any viable culture, a society that is tolerates immorality and mocks morality always evolves a huge burden of inscrutable and invasive laws that dictate EVERY aspect of life, and in ever contradictory ways. Everything, every action, becomes illegal if the law were to be completely enforced. The laws then come to be enforced by whim of the enforcer, and are applied harshly. A multitude of petty tyrants arise. No one is safe, no one is free.

Only morality and a regard for that morality both in the written law and in the social custom keep a society free, and the people within that society safe.


29 posted on 01/18/2012 8:30:18 AM PST by bvw
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To: LuvFreeRepublic
You cannot legislate morality.

Utterly false. Morality is legislated every day. What IS the law but enforced morality? What are the laws about theft and robbery, but a codification of "Thou shall not steal"? What about legislation about "hate crimes", discouraging smoking in public, etc, etc?

The proper venue for legislation is to discourage actions which would tend to be harmful to society. Single motherhood is one of THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE activities to a modern society.

31 posted on 01/18/2012 9:54:32 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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