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To: John Carragher who wrote (123780)	7/7/2005 10:17:40 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793904

Well, that's sort of my point. I don't think Roe v. Wade is a hot button with Bush. Nor homosexuality. He's not into bedroom politics. He's more of a law-and-order type of guy. And he's not off on a theoretical tangent, like Bork. I was just reading Bork's latest essay on the wonders of "Anglo-Protestant culture." As a Catholic whose French, Celtic, and German ancestors (including Jews) came here hundreds of years ago (before the Foundation), I think Bork's a nut. I have English ancestors and Protestant ancestors, too, but I don't worship them as fountainheads of superior wisdom to the Germans, the French, the Celts, the Catholics or the Jews. Whatever happened to the "melting pot" theory of American culture? Maybe that's one reason why I like Gonzalez. He doesn't make a big deal out of being Hispanic, he's just American. My opinion is that people who worship the ancestral country don't really love America as much as people who call themselves Americans. When they had "honor your heritage day" at school, I sent my kids to school in T-shirt and jeans and told them to tell the teachers that their heritage was "American."