Posted on 07/06/2004 5:18:34 PM PDT by buckeyesrule
"It's kinda hard to see how the encouragement of voluntarily helping others could be construed as the type of heavy-handed state-mandated socialism that is so endemic today."
Voluntary is not, compulsory is.
Please cite for us whose or what rights are being trampled.
BTTT
"Please cite for us whose or what rights are being trampled"
Oh please Sam, if I were to start making a list of rights Christians have denied people, even a partial list, it would take up pages and pages, which quite frankly I don't have the time to build.
But lets just take a look at one topic off the top of my head, Gay Marriage. That seems to be a semi-hot topic these days, and one I have spent some time thinking about.
Christians contend that gays don't have a right to get married. Really, so now just where in the Constitution does it say that they don’t? Christians like to refer to aliteral interpretation of the Constitution when the subject of separation of church and state comes up, so lets do a literal interpretation here.
For that matter where does it say in the Constitution that heterosexuals have a right to marriage, I certainly haven't been able to find it maybe you can help. (Hint: it doesn't, you have to obtain permission from the state for lawful marriage). So that being so, why does your group have a right to say what constitutes a legal marriage. Your moral beliefs about what is right?. Just can’t stand it that other people may see things differently. Different is bad isn’t it Sam, and it must be eradicated by your group, otherwise the country will fall into disarray and ruin. (Another Hint: That’s the same line the Christians have been using for centuries and hey guess what, never happened.
Will you be for anything as long as it supposedly riles up Christians?
I guess that makes another issue you and Robert Reich agree on......are you sure you are conservative?
"Will you be for anything as long as it supposedly riles up Christians?"
No Sam I am for anything that goes to truth and since most of Christianity is myth them becoming riled up is just a natural byproduct of truth.
After you get gay marriage pushed thru, of course.
Robert Reich, A humble man..with much to be humble about.
Apparently Reich is beloved at "Marketplace" a program sponsored on National Public Radio.
He has a virtually monopoly on broadcasting anti Bush anti capitalist venom seven days a week.
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