Posted on 06/28/2003 9:37:25 AM PDT by I_Love_My_Husband
Santorum rips gay sex ruling
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Amen. Keep looking up.
I think you are right. We are doing our best however. Don't give up, don't ever give up. I am glad I still have a country to move to, if things really get out of hand.
This is absolutely silly, laughable, and more to the point, wrong. Pedophilia has NOTHING to do with a ruling that addresses private acts between consenting adults. Such extreme statements are the kind that gives the left ammunition when stating that the religious right is trying to impose their religious moral ethic on the nation.
As for prostitution, I have long held that if Roe is to be interpreted as recognizing the right to bodily privacy and control under the 9th ammendment then prostitution must be legalized to apply the decision equitably. Lawrence makes the case even more clearly. Such is the nature of the law of unintended consequences.
However, this is nation of laws not of religions. The constitutional separation of church and state in part guarantees that a dominant religion cannot become a defacto national religion. One of the inherent problems with this is that we fight tooth and nail to keep the government out of our religions, yet we all too often insist that the government answer to our religious ideals. To be effective within a free government the church must recognize and respect the separation as equally as they expect the government to do so. The church must uphold it's end of the 1st Ammendment separation. There will forver be times when the government, in it's obligation to serve ALL citizens equally, must hold the basic moral ethics of judeo-christian theology at arms length.
And yet, I'd bet that those to whom you were speaking would be among the first to claim they're agaist "big government", excessive regulation, and encroachments on individual liberty.
Ick, don't use that word gorgeous. Find a good wholesome book or video and don't be tempted to go outside until it cools off later.
Heh -- agreed...
Three decades of intense liberal indoctrination and moral relativism have taken their toll as is observed by the number of well-meaning RINOs fluttering about.
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Ok, check that. Maybe RINOs are indeed "misguided nitwits" instead?? ;-)
Well, eventually it will, but check out the book of revelation, to see what a hassle the world will go through, before good finally wins out.
And herein lies the problem. While I support the decision for the government to stay out of bedrooms, this ruling will snowball into much more than intended, with folks (as stated in the out take above) believing they have *rights* to things that are not guaranteed by the Constitution. And based on what the SCOTUS ruled yesterday, I am very wary that culture has invaded law- forever.
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