Leland Jackson wrote: > Good; I'm not anti-religion. On the contrary. I believe whole heatedly > in the USA Constitution and its first amendment rights of freedom in > religion. What I oppose is mixing religion and politics, which can lead > to loss of religious freedom, and a theocratic government, eg( an > autocratic government that imposes a single nation religion on all its > citizens). > > But, since you're not a political activist working through the church to > push a political agenda, like defining marriage as between a man > and a women, or making abortion illegal by passage of USA > constitutional amendments, then you're not a religious righter. > > "Religious Righter" has a connotation of mixing religion and politics, > while vigorously insisting that you are right in all moral matters. > A Religious Righter attitude can be messy, as it was in Iraq, after the > departure of Saddam.
Hi Leland, I am opposed to gay marriage and abortion, but not within the context of religion. If we let any religion dictate any law we then have no logical defense against sharia. I can't claim "whole heatedly", however. Perhaps whole heartedly. I think gay unions should not be called marriages, but I am OK with "civil unions" - to the extent that I am not personally disgusted. However, then men and women should also be allowed "civil unions" with each other - non-traditional marriages. A civil union between a man and a woman might allow multiple partners or "weekends off", for example. The objective is to preserve the idea of traditional marriage AND legalize the personal behaviors we are seeing nowadays while still accurately describing these behaviors as non-traditional. If the legal descriptions are allowed to blur, then the people involved don't know what to expect when it is falling apart. Who gets the rocking chair? And abortion! We are one war or epidemic away from depopulation and people want to kill babies! Who will pay for our senior benefits? To say nothing about the graying of the population without war, disease or famine. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
