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To: Gay State Conservative

Morality and legality are two different issues and one should not dictate the other. The owner of an ambulance service may have a moral obligation to help a pervert as you say but that does not mean that morality should be law. I believe homosexuality is immoral but I do not believe we should have laws against. Speeding is illegal but not immoral. Morality is the realm of religion and individual conscience. Laws are the application of state power to maintain an just society. They should be not intertwined.


12 posted on 02/08/2018 8:05:45 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: FreedomNotSafety

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Morality and legality are two different issues and one should not dictate the other. The owner of an ambulance service may have a moral obligation to help a pervert as you say but that does not mean that morality should be law. I believe homosexuality is immoral but I do not believe we should have laws against. Speeding is illegal but not immoral. Morality is the realm of religion and individual conscience. Laws are the application of state power to maintain an just society. They should be not intertwined.
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Oh, Schiff, you started it now (spot on though). Unfort, there’s (R)N(C) despots a plenty around here (drug-war crusaders, SS\MediXYZ crusaders, etc.)


40 posted on 02/09/2018 4:38:20 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: FreedomNotSafety; Gay State Conservative
Morality and legality are two different issues and one should not dictate the other. The owner of an ambulance service may have a moral obligation to help a pervert as you say but that does not mean that should be law.

In real life, if the ambulance service is contracted to respond to emergency 911 calls, the contract would specify a legal obligation to respond to ALL calls. If it's a private service which, for example, just does non-emergency calls, effectively being a taxi service for invalids needing to visit their doctors, then they should be able to decide who they choose to transport. The driver may not care about "perverts", but might balk at transporting gang members who might put the driver at risk of violence, or people with a record of not paying.

43 posted on 02/09/2018 4:54:35 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Good point.


76 posted on 02/10/2018 6:03:34 PM PST by gleeaikin
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