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To: Christian_Egalitarian
The Republicans have created and participate with as much social engineering as anyone. No congress critter is immune from that label.
60 posted on 12/22/2001 11:50:13 AM PST by PatrioticAmerican
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To: PatrioticAmerican
The Republicans have created and participate with as much social engineering as anyone. No congress critter is immune from that label.

True. I simply contend that the absence of a given government policy or action is as much a statement of social ideology as the presence of the same would be.

For example, the anti-marriage crowd, Gloria Steinem et al, oppose the fast-tracking of the elimination of the "marriage penalty" in the tax code. Fast tracking it would be an action reflecting a social ideology; same goes for advocating the absence of that action.

Other Libertarians seem to feel that the absence of an action is always nonideological: this perspective. I contend.

90 posted on 12/22/2001 12:20:41 PM PST by Christian_Egalitarian
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