appolose said:
Only, the government has. You know how the First Amendment allows the free right of religious practice, yes? But you'll notice that right isn't extended to human-sacrificing religions, no matter how sincere their adherents may be. Of course we force our values onto others. Again, that is what law does, does it not? Furthermore, it is his personal belief to put a stop to such things like that, to interfere, as it were, with other people's actions; he believes for himself that it should be stopped. Notice how both statements can be compatible. Also, if you thought, for example, that your next door neighboor was about to back over a kid in the driveway, wouldn't you try to stop him in just about anyway, even if he believed there was no kid of which he might back over (poor example, but you get the idea). If so, then you must conclude that one can indeed force your beliefs onto someone else. How is my first statement in anway illogical? This is the argument: A. To be a Christian, one must agree with all the Bible. B. Obama disagrees with the Bible. C. Therefore, Obama is not a Christian. That completely follows (I'm not saying the premises are necessarily true, though, just that it would follow).
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There is a consensus about murdering people, about stealing things, and about attacking other people. No one is debating the issue. Those things are illegal because over 95% of the country believes they should be illegal.
Here is a poll on abortion taken a few days ago for comparison:
http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm
With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life?
Pro-Choice Pro-Life Unsure about terms Neither/Unsure
53% 44% 2% 2%
A majority of the country thinks abortion should be legal.
Where in the Bible does it say that aborting a child is murder? I am not saying the Bible condones abortion, but there is a legitimate debate over when a fetus is actually alive.
I can easily find you a place in the Bible where it will tell you that judging others will make your judgment even harsher.
Please, don't compare people saying murder should be illegal to people saying abortion should be illegal or you are just ignoring the facts of how Americans actually feel.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
