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To: Christie at the beach
I don’t agree to live in a society where anything; as in any behavior is pressed/mandated as being ok to do.

"Legal" is not "OK" - insulting one's family and cheating on one's fiancee are legal. Or do you want to ban those too?

You are calling for protections by a government that you claim are far overreaching.

I'm calling for government to leave pot sellers and users alone - and no more "protection" than a social drinker or non-burqa-wearer enjoys against a Muslim who would force his own moral code on her.

Even the Founders mentioned God and mortality for a free society to exist

But they never said government could make people moral.

170 posted on 08/20/2014 1:43:35 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
But they never said government could make people moral.

All laws are enforced morality. All of them. There is no such thing as a law that is not an attempt to enforce a moral behavior.

Laws are not an effort to make people moral. Laws are there to deal with people who cause problems by not being moral.

216 posted on 08/20/2014 3:07:22 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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