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To: tacticalogic
Even pragmatism is a form of morality. Driving on the right side of the road, setting speed limits, requiring auto insurance, etc., are not found in the Bible, the Koran, the Talmud, Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, the writings of Cicero, Atlas Shrugged, or the Bhagvad Gita. However, most philosophical systems advocate the maintenance of public order. Maintaining safe streets and traffic flow assists in establishing public order.

Evangelicals do not advocate mandatory Sabbath worship, state support of the church, or even test oaths to hold public office. Some would want to wrest the public schools from its present control by secular humanists, and bring back public prayer and Bible reading. This is, of course, an attempt to compel people to outwardly conform with Judeo-Christian standards of behavior. However, most players in he public education arena do likewise for their causes, e.g., sex educators who promote premarital sex, liberals who try to promote multiculturalism and political correctness, minority advocates who favor public recognition of and honor to their particular race, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. Too few people advocate the separation of school and state, which is the most reasonable solution to this matter.

If some social conservatives are disingenuous in this respect, so are the RINOs and liberals who promote sexual license, multiculturalism, and PC in the name of freedom and tolerance.

90 posted on 07/12/2004 8:45:21 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
Too few people advocate the separation of school and state, which is the most reasonable solution to this matter.

If some social conservatives are disingenuous in this respect, so are the RINOs and liberals who promote sexual license, multiculturalism, and PC in the name of freedom and tolerance.

If I choose the advocation of separation of school and state, then I have as much reason to oppose the evangelical SCs as the RINOs and liberals, in terms of the means. Failure to consider the means as a separate issue from the desired end result means the end is justifying the means - and there is a fair amount of conservative philosophy that finds that a disagreeable proposition.

95 posted on 07/12/2004 8:55:19 AM PDT by tacticalogic ( Controlled application of force is the sincerest form of communication.)
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