Posted on 10/06/2006 10:08:53 PM PDT by balch3
"Its important that people in the pro-family movement remain vigilant...."
Crumbs for folks....
Sharia
That is pretty scary but we are moving down a pretty steep hill. I think the slope is gone.
All I know is that he will not get my support in 08. In fact, I'll take my poker winnings (or losings ;) ) and send checks to each of his challengers and then send a copy of the check to him with a letter explaining why.
You got it!
I don't know the solution to this problem.
The results of 2004 make the same point though Bush was riding higher in the polls.
The stock market also tears countless dollars from the hands of working families. Perhaps we should ban that as well. After all, it's gambling.
Exactly. To say that this is about "virtues" from either side of the aisle is a pant-load.
"Cigarettes first, gambling second, wonder what will be next? "
Transfat
The solution is for the Church to remain above the slime that is politics and concentrate on converting people to their belief through moral persuasion. To expect piety from politicians and salvation from Washington goes contrary to common sense...
I posted this article here 6 years ago...
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39f7ad0d0b86.htm
"Acknowledging the limits of the law is indispensable to preserving the recognition of a moral order beyond it. Conversely, relieving legality of the burden of moral rightness is also indispensable to its preservation. The legal and the moral must remain distinct if they are to perform their roles of supporting and facilitating one another."
Before the government deposited checks in mailboxes, the parishes were the dispensers of charity. But that charity was conditional: one had to be contrite to receive it. Personal contact with people who cared, and brooked little BS...fool them once....
The mailman holds no one to any moral standard. All that is necessary to recieve government largess is poverty, real or feigned; there is no incentive to amend; there is every reason to remain in comfortable misery; there is no one to hold the mirror, and say "guilty". If you don't take the money, someone else will. [Did you know that being an ex-con automatically qualifies you for state welfare in my 1/50th? The health benefits include unlimited drug rehab....adjust the maintenance dosage every couple months 50 bags to four...see you in a few months. Private insurance....3 days...one time. It pays to be a jackoff reprobate.]
The parishes have fallen apart: that which made them socially necessary has been rendered moot by professional helpers in the gummint. [poverty is a disease of unequal distribution of wealth...not the result of incorrect morals and attitudes and lifestyles.....guilt is perverse!]
The churches will flourish when they are necessary, and that will be not very soon.
Tennessee, Virginia, N.Y, and the other 47 States.
Of course "BILL," I really believe you and the other BS artists when you use (Sadly, the DimicRATS'usual) that old ploy: "Its for the Chillen."
I can just imagine some 13 or 15 year old with a their own Credit Card with hundreds (or thousands) of dollar limits (OR BETTER YET, USING BANK MONEY TRANSFERS?) gambling "their" savings away?
Yeah right!!!
Go back to Tenn., Mr. Frist. I'm sure you are/were a great doctor; you have been a TERRRIBLE leader in the Senate.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT $$$$$$ and the inability of States' (and Feds) to get their grubby little hands on their "share" in the form of taxes.
The same thing applies for the purchase of tobacco products online, which is now nearly impossible to do, thanks to the N.Y. State-Gov-wanna-be-idiot-liberal-A-Hole Elliot "SPRITZER."
None of this has anything to do with the "Chillen."
And believe me, as soon as all these Pols figure out a way to "save the Chillens" by taxing ALL INTERNET ONLINE PURCHASES, they will trot that one out in order to force all of us to render unto Ceaser what (they perceive)is due.
Sadly Frist and other Pubs have caved on this--as in so many other issues.
By the way, I've NEVER gambled online--not so much as a dime, although I do enjoy Vegas every once in a while which is much more exiting and fun and I have no doubt that all Casinos throughout the US, were firmly behind this bill as online gambling no doubt hurt their bottom lines.....
Personally I could care less if online gambling is allowed or barred. My only bitch is that Frist and the rest are a bunch of Hypocrites and are unwilling to admit the real reason they opposed this, rather than use that piss-poor excuse: "Its for the Chillen!!!"
Churches generally are seen as necessary when people become interested in the salvation of souls.
But the lotteries are "for the children."
Of course and so was the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of extortion money the states got from the tobacco companies in the settlements.
Anyone care to inquire as to where that $$$$ actually went?
The same place as all of our FICA contributions go when it reaches Washington--"The General Funds" and it disappears faster than the pols can say "Sucker!"
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