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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (615493)	8/31/2004 11:07:52 PM
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But the Taliban believe in their religion. They believe its precepts represent the will of God. Why should they not, then, force others to live by their religious precepts, if they can get away with it? It's not as though there is a Taliban document, or declaration, claiming for every citizen the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It's not as though the Taliban believe in the separation of church and state. Forced gestation to term by American females of fertilized ova is what is advocated by the Republican platform. I've seen this fact, and the refusal to allow civil union to gays, defended on the basis that "nobody reads the platform." to·tal·i·tar·i·an ( P ) Pronunciation Key (t-tl-târ-n) adj. Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: “A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.). to·tal·i·tar·i·an n. A practitioner or supporter of such a government.