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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (14933)	3/11/2000 6:44:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 769667

The point is that it is probably better not to have a moral watchdog with his paw on your zipper if he also belongs to a breed that usually wears his zipper at half mast. We just had an Army officer convicted of tampering with a 13 year old boy on the beach. The officer denied it, of course. He claimed he was just trying to levitate the boy, which in a sense, no doubt, he was. He introduced no character witnesses or revealed that he was a Roman Catholic chaplain, because he feared (his lawyer said) that the jury would suspect him of being a member of a homosexual cult. Things apparently have reached the point that being known as a Roman Catholic priest is prejudicial in a sex assault case. In the cases of hell-fire preachers, the suspicion is often that they are womanizers -- Jim Bakker, Swaggart, etc. Reasonable people understand that such prejudices are inappropriate, but it is the stereotype that is becoming established even among church members. Look at the lengths that the poor effeminate right-wing family candidate Bauer had to take -- put glass in his office door -- to avoid accusations of sexual abuse. And he wasn't even a preacher. But that didn't stop them!

To: PROLIFE who wrote (14933)	3/12/2000 4:00:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Point being that the presence in the Bush campaign of an advisor who believes in biblical inerrancy is no guarantee whatsoever that either the candidate or the advisor will not drop the zipper at a moment's notice. It is a reasonable assurance that the advice he'll be getting from that particular person will be out of step with the beliefs and desires of the vast majority of Americans who do not believe in biblical inerrancy.