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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (2155)9/14/1999 11:44:00 PM
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Some day, Christopher, speaking of schools, we might discuss the bitter struggle against routine corporal punishment in American schools. Who defended it; what it was based on; how it came, through the passionate intervention of secularists, to have reached the reduced state it now occupies in the educational process. (Of course, the specter of religiously privatized education raises apprehension among some over whether this religiously-based attitude toward young children will reappear.)

Religion has been in the schools, Christopher. In America, ubiquitous, brutal corporal punishment was one of its most defining manifestations. Secular thought has convinced most Christians, now, of the error of their Bible-based ways.

(And of course there was the struggle to allow couples access to birth control. That was stipulated to be sinful, wasn't it? And thus forced on those who disagreed?)

I was not being provocative when I said you may stipulate a fertilized oocyte to be a human being with more "rights" than the female in whose body those microscopic cells are lodged, and thus require the females under your domination to gestate one until it becomes a human being under penalty of imprisonment (or to obtain illegal abortions); I merely request that you restrict your stipulations and interference and force majeure to those who believe as you do.
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