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To: jboot
The government regulates morality all of the time. That is the purpose of things called "laws".

Some of us believe that the purpose of laws is to protect peoples' rights, not to regulate their morality...
69 posted on 04/23/2002 1:14:59 PM PDT by Stone Mountain
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To: Stone Mountain
Some of us believe that the purpose of laws is to protect peoples' rights, not to regulate their morality...

Where do rights come from?

72 posted on 04/23/2002 1:17:05 PM PDT by Persuasion
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To: Stone Mountain
Some of us believe that the purpose of laws is to protect peoples' rights, not to regulate their morality...

Exactly.

73 posted on 04/23/2002 1:17:31 PM PDT by cardinal4
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