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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
- Message-ID: <1499@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:36:12 GMT
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- krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- : 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
-
- Ted, nobody's talking about "voluntary" school prayer- yes, there
- have been isolated instances where overzealous administrators kept
- kids from praying, but as a general rule, anybody who wants to pray
- in school is free to do so at any time (except when he's supposed
- to be, say, working on math problems or something). What
- conservatives are pushing for is *state-sponsored* prayer;
- something which should offend people of all religions.
-
- Bill
-