Sargon, it appears FR is turning into a radical theocracy. We have been here much longer than most of these folks. While i am a social conservative by any given standard (bitter clinger to the left), it appears our ideals are not pure enough for the radicals. I think many here are over-reading the election results like the radical left did. Its disturbing, because if this is what comes out of the elected TEA party reps mouths, they are finished politically.
I don’t think Joe Miller, Rand Paul or Sarah Palin would agree with some of these exclusionary comments.
Due to the severe nature of the fiscal problems in this country, the fiscal issue is priority number 1 to me. These folks are stuck on “manners” while the ship sinks. Instead of bailing water they are throwing those that aren’t 100% ideologically in agreement with them overboard, even though they are in it for the same end-goal.
Getting back to our roots as a nation is the establishment of a *theocracy*? Who knew?
Who know that's what the Constitution established at the time that homosexuality and sodomy was illegal and abortion was still considered murder and illegal?
If you don't like it, why not move to some other atheistic run country like China or NK and let us know what a wonderful paradise it is to have no moral restraints.
That really stopped government totalitarianism, didn't it?
Are you really incapable of thinking through what the consequences of what you want are?
Under libertarianism, Jefferson would be considered a theocrat:
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,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,
"Thou shald not kill," is God's Law, if opposing abortion makes me a theocrat, so be it.
Sodomy is a violation of God's Law, until fairly recently it was considered a mental disorder, if thinking sodomy is wrong makes me a theocrat, so be it.
Due to the severe nature of the fiscal problems in this country, the fiscal issue is priority number 1 to me.
Our nation has allowed 52 MILLION AMERICANS to be murdered in the past 38 years. These are Americans would would be spending money, creating jobs, having children, paying taxes and growing the economy. America's fiscal policies BEGAN when the Baby Boomers, first through contraception and then through abortion, created a demographic time bomb. People like you think that focusing on the symptom while ignoring the actual problem is somehow a solution, it isn't.
Instead of bailing water they are throwing those that aren’t 100% ideologically in agreement with them overboard, even though they are in it for the same end-goal.
The only other time our Republic has faced a moral tragedy close to the level of the current one was with slavery. The Whigs claimed to be opposed to slavery, but didn't want to do anything about it other than seek compromise. Eventually, it became obvious that the ONLY WAY to save America was to go ahead and throw the Whigs overboard.
I think as grown ups we can walk and chew gum at the same time..