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To: Antoninus

Well, to a lefty, theirs is superior... and they’ll take up arms to defend it.

To a conservative, ours is better... and we’ll take up arms to defend it.

So... as our founding fathers understood, we are not a homogeneous nation, with one set of ethics/morals/mores that all ascribe to. Therefore, do as they did, which was to leave those issues to the regional level.

After all, the plantation owners of Virginia found the New England Puritans to be strange... and the Puritans found Virginians to be far too permissive. And while the names and places may have changed in the past 200+ years, the heterogeneous nature of American society hasn’t.


58 posted on 03/16/2012 10:09:42 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla
So... as our founding fathers understood, we are not a homogeneous nation, with one set of ethics/morals/mores that all ascribe to.Therefore, do as they did, which was to leave those issues to the regional level.

And, what happened at those "regional" levels:

Maryland Constituion — 1776

We, the people of the state of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty ...

That, as it is the duty of every man to worship God in such manner as he thinks most acceptable to him; all persons professing the Christian religion, are equally entitled to Protection in their religious liberty; wherefore no person ought by any law to be molested...

...required "a declaration of a belief in the Christian religion" for all state officers.

63 posted on 03/17/2012 3:35:56 PM PDT by Kazan (Mitt Romney: The greater of two evils)
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