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To: WVKayaker
FRiend, you have yet to give any answers. You continue to pose your pet arguments of obfuscation, but fail to look through the trees. You start from a rejection of supernatural Creation,

I do not reject supernatural creation. I reject the idea that we cannot make decisions of public policy based on the available physical evidence because it will conflict with someone's religious belifs.

174 posted on 06/27/2008 7:18:38 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

“I reject the idea that we cannot make decisions of public policy based on the available physical evidence because it will conflict with someone’s religious belifs.”-TL

Religion is should the basis for all our pubic policy, as far back as the Founder’s thought. -kayaker

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good...


180 posted on 06/27/2008 7:29:56 PM PDT by WVKayaker (You mileage may vary.)
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To: tacticalogic

Maybe you would prefer the 1st amentment to our Constitution.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

****Under our form of government, we elect representatives. They make the “informed” decisions. I see no limit on where they should be denied the right to include religious beliefs, NOR EXCLUDE them from the discussion!

In the topic posing, it mentions that the vast majority of those residents polled, agreed with the decision, after their legislators overwhelming approved it. I think that trumps your personal pet peeves. At least, it does in America.


185 posted on 06/27/2008 7:37:42 PM PDT by WVKayaker (You mileage may vary.)
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