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To: HumanaeVitae
When a cutpurse is brought before a judge for sentencing, does he say, "Look, I don't believe picking pockets is wrong, okay? You can let me go now", and expect to get off scott-free.

The judge is not sentencing the thief for being immoral. He is sentencing him for breaking the law. Surely you don't believe that everything immoral should be illegal or vice-versa?
12 posted on 02/28/2003 9:53:24 AM PST by Stone Mountain
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To: Stone Mountain
Again, the question is whether or not an unborn child is a human. The other question--whether or not everything I think is immoral should be illegal--is flawed.

First off, if I said that everything that I believe to be immoral should be illegal, then I'd be a moral relativist. In my view, morality is not personal; it is transcendent.

Second, if you're for allowing pornography, prostitution, drug use etc. to be legal in society, well guess what, I live in the same society that you do. You're trying to impose your morals on me. I regard the above as trash, and you're littering in my neighborhood.

That's the thing about secularists. You don't seem to realize that secularism is a belief system; it's its own type of religion.

Don't think so? Answer this question: Is it possible to be neutral to the idea that government should be neutral to ideology?

That question smokes secularism out every time...

111 posted on 02/28/2003 10:53:22 AM PST by HumanaeVitae
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To: Stone Mountain
The judge is not sentencing the thief for being immoral. He is sentencing him for breaking the law.

A dancing fool devote of the Clinton word waltz, I see.

337 posted on 03/01/2003 9:08:58 AM PST by Kevin Curry
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