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To: EternalVigilance

Agree. I forget which Scotus judge determined that Christian teachings are anathema to the law, that Christian morality as the basis of law making is unconstitutional.

Our Framing generation and earlier philosophers distinguished between liberty and license, between ordered liberty in a civil society and abuse of liberty. The former promotes social cohesiveness essential to our happiness, while licentiousness divides our community into squabbling factions that may eventually disintegrate our (feeble) republic.

BTW, if Senators were appointed by the States, do you think Congress would be pushing the States around like this, over gay marriage and other issues like Obamacare?

39 posted on 03/26/2013 3:32:25 AM PDT by Jacquerie ("How few were left who had seen the republic!" - Tacitus, The Annals)

Oops. Make that do you think Scotus would be pushing . . .

40 posted on 03/26/2013 3:36:09 AM PDT by Jacquerie ("How few were left who had seen the republic!" - Tacitus, The Annals)

Absolutely not. That’s why I’ve always advocated for the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment.

43 posted on 03/26/2013 4:11:16 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Legislate that down is up if you will, but take my advice, don't jump off cliffs anyway.)

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