[bigsigh]

It's not hate speech. It's you trying to impose your religion on the rest of the populace.

[little jeremiah]

"[O]ur ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits."
-- Daniel Webster, American Jurist and Senator

Of all the dispositions and habits which least to political
prosperity, Religion and morality are indespensable supports.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism who should
labor to subvert these great Pilliars of human happiness."
-- George Washington (Farewell Address, 19 September 1796)

"The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"[W]hen People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." --Samuel Adams

"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster." -- General Douglas MacArthur

"It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of free men. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom." --Patrick Henry

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." Noah Webster, compiler of the American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828.

“We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us ... to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” -James Madison

And finally, to disprove the false argument that basic morality as taught in the Bible is somehow sectarian:

"Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts ... in which all religions agree." --Thomas Jefferson

Happy Thanks Giving!

[DBeers]

It's not hate speech. It's you trying to impose your religion on the rest of the populace.

Actually it appears you are attempting to impose your homosexual agenda on this thread by using one of the oldest leftist ploys...

[bigsigh]

I guess freedom from government discrimination and from having the religion of others forced upon you didn't count.

Thanx for the selective quotes and psuedohistory lesson.

I'm thankful for the gay friends we have, as I am for all of our friends and the fact that two of them are married has not diminsihed our marriage 1 bit.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[chickenlips]

"It's not hate speech. It's you trying to impose your religion on the rest of the populace."

Here let me correct your statement. Of course I am assuming you believe in free speech and that right and wrong exist.

It's not hate speech. It's you exercising your right to proclaim your religion to the rest of the populace, as a Christian should to help those trapped in sin and any socially pathological lifestyle.

[Forest Keeper]

It's not hate speech. It's you trying to impose your religion on the rest of the populace.

The man was preaching a sermon in his own church, to his own congregation, who willingly came to listen. What in the world is the imposition? Should religion be banned from churches?