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To: CatoRenasci
re: What "conservative Christians" would criminalize depends upon whom you speak with, so demanding a list is hardly an argument. )))

I guess that means you don't have much of a list, just a blanket insinuation without substance. But I'll at least take a look at the bland examples you did offer... There are still vestiges of blue laws in a few states (sharia law?), it's pretty tough to advance the pro-life pt of view (and I do believe there is an athiest prolife org out there, anyway), and there was a little more to Prohibition than religion.

That the best you can do? Letting a few merchants get some rest one day a week, and that amounts to a threatened theocracy?

This is plain old thinly-disguised personal distaste for the beliefs of your political allies--and it'll get on the nerves of those allies if you don't keep it under control.

If the neos don't like sitting at the same table with the religious right, just say so instead of delivering pompous little lectures . We could always move on down the line.

re: In my view, "conservative Christians" need to understand the intellectual and historical antecedents of the different view and will ultimately have to choose between supporting a conservatism that differs from theirs, but preserves a sphere in which they are free to live as they choose, and supporting a state that is tinged to a greater or lesser degree with theocracy...

In other words, you're takin' over the joint? Straight out of James Cagney...

If the latter, there will be little support, and the left, who will not even respect their sphere, will gain power.

No one's stopping the 'tarians from sucking up the lattes in the jazz bars with their liberal buddies...

121 posted on 05/27/2003 12:34:13 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle
You thoroughly misunderstand my point. If I read the temper of the American body politic at all correctly, there is unlikely to ever be a majority that would support a hard religious right candidate or policies. That's simply my assessment of the facts, based upon historical knowledge and interest in contemporary affairs, not distate for their views. If my assessment is correct, then my analysis follows that the religious right's alternatives are the existing conservative party (the 'pubbies) or letting the left rule.
123 posted on 05/27/2003 1:17:43 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
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