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To: G8 Diplomat
If they pose a threat to people and to society, they’re “big” sins.

The question was who gets to decide whether they're "big" sins, not on what basis you decide they are. Personally, I'd say sloth and gluttony can pose a threat to people and society, but I don't think the federal government was intended or authorized to exercise control over those things.

124 posted on 09/06/2007 7:57:43 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

Let me rephrase that: if they pose an immediate threat to people. Gluttony is not an immediate threat the way murder is, and people can change their minds about it and quit. It’s unlikely that a killer is going to change his mind in the middle of a gunfight or right before an abortion. Also, gluttony is something done in your private home, where the govt has no business. Murder and abortion and gay unions and all the others are done on the public scale, where the govt does have influence.

Also the govt has the choice of authorizing funding to things like stem cell research. They are in the position to ban it, and should. They are not, however, in the position to ban gluttony.


128 posted on 09/06/2007 8:05:22 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat (It's campaign season. Let's rumble!)
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