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To: GoLightly
Heck, we fought a civil war about a moral issue.

The purpose of the Civil War was, apparently, to enfranchise people of color so that they could vote en bloc for the party of those who had formerly oppressed them.

Ah, but I'm being bitter...no point to that. =]

147 posted on 11/01/2006 12:16:38 PM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Oberon
The purpose of the Civil War was, apparently, to enfranchise people of color so that they could vote en bloc for the party of those who had formerly oppressed them.

That's bad. Their side may be getting the numbers, for now. I think our side is getting many of the best "people of color". I seem to have found another good place to post a link to this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrwtobdMm4M

Ah, but I'm being bitter...no point to that. =]

The author of the article did what the left does, take an issue & present it in an emotionally charged way. From the responses in this thread, I see that it worked. I see emotion laden responses, divisions between social & libertarian conservatives.

I'm trying to get us back on track, to put this issue back into thinking from reason instead of emotion. As I said in my previous post, this issue is about the Federalization of our education system, more specifically in the area of sex education. I think that is an area where social conservatives & fiscal conservatives can find common ground on this issue!

172 posted on 11/01/2006 1:50:40 PM PST by GoLightly
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