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To: grumpster-dumpster
you wrote: No where in my statement did I suggest a "theocracy," nor did I suggest the actions of Cardinal Law are to be absolved or forgotten. I did suggest there is a problem of continuing to allow imorality a "public forum" to preach a one-way hatred of all things Christian!

you don't have to mention the word theocracy to wish it upon us...look at your statement "a problem of continuing to allow immorality a public forum", what exactly does that suggest to you? It sounds as though you want to shut it down because it is immoral - looks, walks and talks like a theocracy to me, when religious beliefs dictate that which can be communicated/spoken publically. Clearly the confusion is yours. Nice try, though, in pretending the issue is mine. Have you looked at the constitution recently/ever?

As far as the cardinal is concerned, exactly how is he any better than Howard Stern? Why are you not railing against him for allowing child sex offenders to continue their assaults? Howard only talks about degradation, the cardinal *enabled* it. He is the poster child for those who do nothing about the problem. Please take your blinders off, but be careful, the view may be startling to you.

76 posted on 03/07/2002 12:07:58 PM PST by dmz
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To: dmz
The only startling view here that I can discern is that you have missed the last five hundred or so years of history. England and the actions of the Reformation started a governmental movement that effectively eliminated a theocracy--A government ruled by or subject to religious authority. I am sure you will admit there is no religion--such as, for example, Mormonism, that elicits a litmus test, a kind of Inquisition, as it were, on each of our laws, seeing to it that they meet the necessary threshold of religious conformation to that particular brand of religion. That would be a theocracy.

We do however, have a Judeo-Christian culture and civililzation, yes even still and just by a thread; and the plurality of that feature of our population which embraces that culture, coupled with our republican form of government, accounts for our widely held views. Even if the courts, special interest groups, and certain elites don't like it. V's wife.

79 posted on 03/07/2002 12:37:13 PM PST by ventana
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