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- From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:35:45 GMT
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- In <Bxtz1o.8DE@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, Greg Trotter writes:
-
- >In article <92321.34354.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J056600@LMSC5.IS.LM
- >>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?
-
- Last time I checked, we had a First Amendment which prohibits this, so they
- would be wrong.
-
- Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. But did you mean "are NOT wrong? The
- above statement is diametrically opposed to your next sentence:
-
- >Like court decisions to restrict prayer in public places?
-
- Of course not--not if the prayer is voluntary, anyway. What you are talking
- about is *not* what I was talking about. I was talking about religious people
- imposing their morality--NOT about non-religious people forcing their secular
- views on others. Either way, it's just as wrong.
-
- Tim Irvin
-