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To: LindyBill who wrote (106269)	3/27/2005 7:21:26 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

It's a little facile to say it's a religious split, isn't it? People like Nat Hentoff, Tom Harkin, Ralph Nader, Lanny Davis, Barbara Mikulski were against pulling the tube. That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more...

To: LindyBill who wrote (106269)	3/27/2005 7:24:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793670

There was a Catholic father on one of the morning shows who seemed to be a man of faith, yet he would not have lined up with either of the Mr's Bush. So I think declaring it a secular religious divide is too simplistic. There are people of faith on both sides of this. It may be a split between certain kinds of evangelical faith, and other types of faith, but you have, imo, characterized it incorrectly by the simplistic divide of secular/religious.

To: LindyBill who wrote (106269)	3/27/2005 7:51:41 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

The split here and in the country is between the religious and the secular. All the argument and reasoning going on is just to justify that basic split in philosophy. I don't buy that. I recognize the split you're talking about between absolutist pro-lifers and the rest of us on the question of whether Terri should live or die, but I don't think that's all of it. I think that you also have on the life side the sentimental, cuddly types and the professional nurturers regardless of religion and politics. You also have a split on strategy between those who understand and respect how our country works and those who are either ignorant or, to coin a phrase I heard earlier today from George Will, "results oriented to an unhealthy degree." That's not a religious thing.