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To: Double Tap
Do I not have a first amendment right to advocate the changes I suggest? I don't break the law and harrass homosexuals or kill them, but I have a right to work through the established system to, reestablish the laws the nation had at it's founding, just as you have the right to work for the laws you want.

Let me ask you, be honest with your answer. Were our Founders Mentally Unstable and Insane? They made Sodomy, Fornication and Adultery Capital Crimes.

Why were the men who wrote the Constitution not unstable, but I am?

Are we smarter than they? Are we more enlightened? If so when did this new enlightenment come to pass?

I want to return this nation to it's roots. It is not a new or "taliban" idea. It is a Washington, Hamilton, Henry idea.

81 posted on 10/18/2002 9:08:07 PM PDT by FF578
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To: FF578
I want to return this nation to it's roots.

In each and every way?

83 posted on 10/18/2002 9:11:34 PM PDT by rdb3
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To: FF578
How many executions were there from 1787 to 1900 for fornication, homosexuality and adultery?
85 posted on 10/18/2002 9:13:10 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: FF578
Sir, the founding fathers were indeed brilliant men. I would not consult them about modern science or medicine, though, and I would not take every word from their era as infallible in OURS. Where does the CONSTITUTION advocate capital punishment for adultery, fornication, and homosexuality?

You may cite archaic statutes that sanction these behaviors, but of course people will attack your position. We may want a more pure, original form of constitutional government, but we don't also want to go back to a society that cured disease with leeches and that was 99% agrarian, with all the social and religious attitudes of the time as well. Or perhaps you support the Salem witch trials as well?

86 posted on 10/18/2002 9:13:28 PM PDT by HassanBenSobar
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To: FF578
I don't give a damn what the Founding Fathers thought about sexual sin. They also thought slavery was OK. Does not mean they didn't also have some good ideas.

You have advocated killing people who have harmed no one. They participate in acts that you find disgusting, as I do. But you want them dead because of it. I know it is none of my business, so long as it does not harm anyone else.

On further thought, I do not think you are insane. You are a disrupter, trying to bait people into following your lead and give Freerepublic a black eye.

87 posted on 10/18/2002 9:15:01 PM PDT by Double Tap
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To: FF578
Let me ask you, be honest with your answer. Were our Founders Mentally Unstable and Insane? They made Sodomy, Fornication and Adultery Capital Crimes.

Well, the Founding Fathers also advocated for slavery, the political marginalization of women and wrote the Sedition Act of 1798 in direct violation of the First Amendment. They may not have been mentally unstable or insane, but they weren't infallible either.

247 posted on 10/22/2002 4:46:53 PM PDT by irksome1
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