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To: sittnick

I agree with you except that it believes in enforced morality and you can see this stance magnified by Romney’s commercial.

You don’t agree? Just try to by a drink in Utah....or a car on Sunday. And yes there are “blue” laws in other States, but do you want a President that wants to see them instituted nationwide?


23 posted on 07/17/2007 7:40:55 AM PDT by colorcountry (To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon -)
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To: colorcountry

It’s easy to get a drink in Utah. Anbody who wants one can get one.


24 posted on 07/17/2007 7:42:11 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: colorcountry
You don’t agree? Just try to by a drink in Utah....or a car on Sunday. And yes there are “blue” laws in other States, but do you want a President that wants to see them instituted nationwide?

You can't buy a drink in Wilton, Connecticut, or get a beer with your pizza in Hyde Park, Chicago. Both places have dry laws for secular reasons. I miss the blue laws, frankly. A car purchase can wait a day. I do agree that these laws should be enacted locally. I also agree that the general promises in the commercial would be impossible to attain by political means alone, and that the political cures aren't described anyway. Again, I'm not a Romney supporter. But in fact, all laws, and the concept of law itself, is an enforcement of morality.
32 posted on 07/17/2007 8:00:45 AM PDT by sittnick (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: colorcountry
>>And yes there are “blue” laws in other States, but do you want a President that wants to see them instituted nationwide?

Yes

I thought you would agree that blues laws are a decent idea. Or are you just opposed because Romney seems to be for them?

They used to be in all 50 states but our Nation has become so secular they have been ignored or disbanded. Do you agree with the erosion of religios observance in our laws and traditions here in America?

The Bible is replete with scriptures on the importance of observance of the Sabbath not just on a personal level but National.

NEHEMIAH CHAPTER 13:15 ¶ In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the asabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold bvictuals. 16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? 18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

Jeremiah 17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the asabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck astiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction. 24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; 25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city akings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever. 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD. 27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the asabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the bpalaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

84 posted on 07/17/2007 10:58:58 AM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: colorcountry
And yes there are “blue” laws in other States, but do you want a President that wants to see them instituted nationwide?

Is this part of Romney's platform? Did he try to instigate these kinds of laws while he was Governor of Mass?

229 posted on 07/18/2007 9:47:48 AM PDT by sandude
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