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- From: krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.060610.8099@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 06:06:10 GMT
- References: <92321.34354.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> <1992Nov17.203717.27502@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> <10002@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
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- In article <10002@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> joslin@pogo.isp.pitt.edu (David Joslin) writes:
- >krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- >>>It is only those people who propose
- >>>PUBLIC POLICY based on religion-based morality who are in the wrong.
- >>
- >>Oh! I see! So people who argue that there should be a law against
- >>murder are in the wrong. People who argue that there should be a
- >>law against thievery are in the wrong. Can't see why it took me
- >>so long to understand.
- >
- >Do you really think that the only reason for a society to have laws
- >against murder and theft are religion-based moralities?
-
- Please re-read your original post above. You do not specify that you
- are talking only about public policy which is based "entirely" on
- religion. You simply state "based on religion." If you mean the
- former, as opposed to the latter, then we would probably agree.
- >
- >I would argue that there should be laws against murder and theft
- >because without such laws we couldn't have a functioning society.
- >I suspect that most of us here enjoy the benefits of living in a
- >functioning society. Therefore, if we want to continue to enjoy
- >those benefits, we should want to have laws that allow us to do so.
- >
- >David
-
- But on the other hand, what damage does voluntary school prayer do?
- Perhaps, it could be argued that the non-christian may feel self-conscious,
- but we do not seem to use that as a basis for restricting rights in
- general. I could, for example, claim that homosexuals should not be
- allowed to share showers with heterosexuals because the heteros would
- feel self-conscious, but we all know that the supreme court nor the
- ACLU cares a lick about how heteros feel about these things.
- A
- Ted
- b
- --
- "We will bury you! We will bury you! We will bury you!"
- - some ex-Soviet leader
- krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu
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