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To: little jeremiah
You use the time honored strawman. It doesn't work with me. Go argue with someone who believes those things. With me, stick to arguing with what I say.

Which of the ten commandments do you want to see enforced by government?

56 posted on 11/26/2003 10:57:40 AM PST by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children)
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To: Protagoras
Which of the ten commandments do you want to see enforced by government?

Thou shall not commit murder

Thou shall not steal

Thou shall not bear false witness (lie under oath)

Thou shall not commit adultery (marriage is a contract and adultery is a violation of that agreement; if you want the government out of all marriage agreements, say so)

Additional laws do exist (whether you want them to or not) regarding:

"Keeping the Sabbath holy." See Sunday Blue Laws (try to by alcohol before noon on Sunday).

"Taking the Lord's name in vain." You may think that you have free speech but there are areas of profanity against religion that are actually considered "hate speech" and unprotected. And this holds for all religions (especially islam, today) in America. These laws tend to be written to apply to persons mocking someone else's deity but the concept is there.

That would be 4 laws that I agree should be based on the 10 commandments (although many states removed the adultery laws which is okay in their minds now that there is no fault divorce, I assume even though someone is still legally wronged).

60 posted on 11/26/2003 11:18:45 AM PST by weegee
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To: Protagoras
As far as the Ten Commandments, I agree with (I think it was) weegee. Even the blaspheming one - in the sense that it should be illegal (and generally used to be until very recently) to publicly vilify another's religion. Perfectly ok to disagree philosophically, but to mock, or slander, especially in a violent or obscene manner, any religion is wrong. For instance, how the Nazis used to vilify the Jewish religion and Jews in general. Or how Catholics used to be vilified in this country.
But that is different than legitimate disagreement with ideas.
77 posted on 11/26/2003 8:32:57 PM PST by little jeremiah
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