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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Machaon who wrote (625)1/22/2003 9:43:30 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 828
 
I call it "selling air".
Make that "hot air". Perfectly legal. Commendable, even. According to many.

Of course, it's mullahs selling hot air in Islamic countries that got us into this current mess, isn't it?

Holding religious "leaders" responsible for molesting children: O.R. is against.
They claim not to be. They do seem to have a problem applying that, though.

Shows the importance of separation of church and state.
We're losing there.

how can we consider anyone who murders someone else, truly sane?
Can't agree there. There are people who quite clearly understood what they were doing when the killed someone and did it anyway. How about taking out a large insurance policy and then killing the insured. Insane?



To: Machaon who wrote (625)1/23/2003 8:46:32 AM
From: LPS5  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 828
 
Robert,

What do you think about a capital gains tax cut compensated for by a hefty tax on any organized (which is to say, essentially corporate) religion that enters the political arena or gains some political advantage by virtue of their tax-advantaged, nonprofit status?

LPS5