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To: John Leland 1789

See post #331.

Even if the citizens of Boston did have queers parading around, that still would have no connection to the taxation without representation issue because that was a beef with the British, not other citizens’ behaviors. If they were to protest queers parading in their streets, it wouldn’t be carried out by poking their financial finger in King George’s eye back in England. They wouldn’t toss the tea into the harbor. They’d beat the $hit out of the queers there in the streets and throw them in stocks in the town square. Therefore, your argument is ridiculous. Call it a straw man argument or argumentum ad apples and oranges. ;)


335 posted on 11/15/2010 2:30:14 AM PST by chilltherats (He was born with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits against their betters)
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To: chilltherats
It is your analogy that is ridiculous, Sir.

What you hope to do is save a morally bankrupt nation with fiscal conservatism---this is what Libertarianism (properly libertine-ism) seeks to do---but it can't be done. You seek to ignore the truth that NO economic system survives decadence.

The people of Boston, had sodomites been parading in their streets, would have addressed both issues simultaneously. They would have kept their spiritual and moral house in order as well as their fiscal house. The same writers of that day who quill-whipped King George, would have been taking aim at sin in their society, as well. They would have been in agreement with the Christian pastors of Boston and Massachusetts.

Further, the people involved in the Boston Tea Party would have, much more likely than not, been faithfully in their Christian churches on Sundays and whenever the church doors were open for meetings, because their convictions, both about fiscal management and social moral well-being came from the Bible, the Christian Scriptures. They were in their generation a devout Christian people of fundamentalist Bible stock.

Those people had much deeper convictions about what was right and wrong in life as a whole; they didn't worship money or an economic system.

370 posted on 11/15/2010 6:06:41 AM PST by John Leland 1789 (Grateful)
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To: chilltherats

If King George had been forcing “gay rights” on the citizens of Boston that would have been on the table.

They didn’t have the social destruction caused by leftists that we have now.

Your entire focus on money and ignoring the very real moral issues that are destroying civilized life is blindness. It also loses elections because more Americans than you like to admit care very much about moral issues.


402 posted on 11/15/2010 8:48:41 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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