[JHBowden]

You're claiming defending the Republic is pointless, so we might as well save our souls.

It is as if tax cuts, school choice, keeping nukes out of the hands of terrorists, preventing the Pelosi-Clinton government takeover of health care, keeping criminals in prison-- mean nothing to people if we're not on a 24/7 jihad against gays.

And throwing in the towel on defense and economics is the worst thing we can do. Social issues can always be changed. Roe v Wade was a judicial innovation in the 1970s, and it can be changed back. But once a Western democracy is saddled with government health care, it can never get rid of it-- one gets accused by people of the same mental aptitude as Francois that you hate the poor, the elderly, and the sick-- most people don't have the patience for careful argument. And once a great city like New York or Chicago is incincerated, we aren't going to get it back.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...people of the same mental aptitude as Francois that you hate the poor, the elderly, and the sick-- most people don't have the patience for careful argument.

Illegals protesting in the streets carrying signs glorifying Osama Bin Laden...

Immigration is good, yeah... tough on terror, tough on crime... WHAT A CROCK!

Gang Mayhem Grips LA

[ScubieNuc]

You're claiming defending the Republic is pointless, so we might as well save our souls.

No, that's a wrong analysis of my post.

I believe defense of our Great Country is important, but not more important then standing for certain moral issues, IMO. It's a matter of my priorities being different from yours.

My main priorities are filtered through my moral underpinnings. These underpinnings are found in my Christian beliefs. If I was to summarize the basics of how I filter my actions/priorities it would be thus:

1) Service to God
2) Service to my family
3) Service to my local community
4) Service to my country

As a Christian, the primary goal is to spread the Gospel of Jesus for eternal freedom from sin. It is not to spread the gospel of a democratic republic. I recognize that if all your treasures exist in the here and now, then defense of the Republic is number #1.

It might be helpful to you to recognize that the Christian wing of the Republican Party believes and lives this verses...

Mark 8:36-38 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Sincerely