home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att-out!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!convex!constellation!gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu!greg
- From: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
- Message-ID: <Bxtz1o.8DE@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:41:40 GMT
- References: <92321.34354.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
- Sender: usenet@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Usenet Administrator)
- Organization: Gallifrey - Home of the Timelords
- Lines: 29
- Originator: usenet@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
-
- In article <92321.34354.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
- >In <1992Nov16.162924.1337@news.vanderbilt.edu>, John Rickert writes:
- >
- >> Oh, I get it now. It took me long enough. But I think I finally
- >>caught on. Religious = religious right. A public reference to religion
- >>is right-wing extremism. Now I see...
- >
- >Not quite. The difference comes when the distinction between religion as
- >a *personal decision* and religion as a *government mandate* isn't made.
- >I'm fairly religious, and I freely share my *personal* beliefs. One can be
- >a fundamentalist and not be part of the "religious Right." How? By accepting
- >that their religion, no matter how devoutly they practice it, is a *personal*
- >lifestyle choice involving them, their family, their church, and their God.
- >It is *not* an issue for the government. It is only those people who propose
- >PUBLIC POLICY based on religion-based morality who are in the wrong.
-
- Let me make sure I hear you right. Are you saying that judges and legislators
- who make decisions that, in some manner, infringe on someone's religious
- rights are wrong?
-
- Like court decisions to restrict prayer in public places?
-
- - greg
-
- --
- Greg Trotter | Joe Isuzu in '96
- Norman, Oklahoma | -- Stay the Course!
- Internet: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu |
- Fidonet: 1:147/63 Treknet: 87:6012/8009 | I don't even represent me.
-