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To: innocentbystander
Sorry, but Sex is just sex for some; and no one individual has the right to define it for everyone else; religious or not.

But what if this traditional view of sex is the most rationally defensible? If so, then it is no mere individual definition, but a truth theoretically knowable by everybody of sound mind. We can't "define" truth for somebody else, we can only discover it and share this discovery.

Now here is the pivotal question: ought we to base our laws and/or our social practices on discovered truth, or on mere private will? Are we to govern ourselves by the rule of reason, as republican government holds, or are we to give ourselves over to irrational passion, and become a nation full of petty tyrants who will not listen to reason?

10 posted on 02/06/2002 5:54:28 PM PST by Dumb_Ox
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To: Dumb_Ox
Are we kin?

LOL!

18 posted on 02/07/2002 1:40:01 AM PST by Caipirabob
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