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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (154230)	12/16/2004 3:45:49 PM
From: Suma	Respond to of 281500

I like what you say here. If scares me that we are co mingling religion with government and trying to legislate morality... I think the government in all its wisdom should stay out of bedrooms,people's personal lives and further not legislate against one minority of people. What concerns me ever more greatly is the phenomenon of religion/patriotism/republicanism melding into some kind of ungodly holy trinity where the faithful cannot separate one from the other and politicians must act according to the wishes of the clerics in order to gain and hold office. (Who will be our Sistani?) That process is abetted by clerics who seem to be moving and further and further into the realm of power politics. I wonder if they've forgotten that involving government into religion or religion into government has historically led to unwanted restraints on the free exercise of religion, even the free exercise of those in the majority? As in all aspects of life, power breeds the abuse of power. I suspect it's just as true for those who profess to be priests, rabbis and ministers as it is for every other man or woman. Ed