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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (94799)	11/8/2008 3:04:37 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541403

Voting to push one's views on others is a very slippery slope, First, it seems to me that all votes are a pushing of one's views by the majority onto the minority. You and I have just pushed our belief that O is the right man for the job on those who preferred McCain. As for my accepting a vote that prevented me from attending my church or maybe any church, I wouldn't like it, of course, but I would adjust. But remember I said a life spent in the pursuit of basic religious virtues and an avoidance of those things deemed sins. So the real tragedy would come not from denying me the right to sit down in a church but from somehow legislating a way of life for me that 'forced' me to live a life of sin over virtue. Then I would become like those people I've crossed paths with through the years who were damaged by their self-defeating behaviors.....lack of education, addictions, divorce and separation from children, self-inflicted diseases, sexual diseases, jail time, etc. Also, remember that like most social conservatives, I've already had to adjust to losing things I liked and thought were beneficial to society as a whole. These things were just legislated away....here one day, gone the next. One was school prayer and the other was Sunday Blue laws. I've had to put up with a lot, too. The deterioration of behavior in the public schools that made my parenting job harder, and the decades when drunk drivers freely menaced the roads. From a social conservative POV, it seems to me that civil rights legislation has already completely reshaped the social landscape, and I've been on that slippery slope for quite awhile. And it's not always majority rule either. By the time, social conservatives finally were able to force through laws banning partial-birth abortions, nearly 65% of the public wanted it banned. All the way through that fight, more than half the people polled wanted it stopped. I've never checked it out, but I have a feeling that only a minority of the country wanted school prayer done away with. Late term abortions are still widely practiced in many states. They're just executed by lethal injection rather than crushed as in some former partial-birth procedures. I'm sure gay marriage will someday become the law of the land, too. I may be missing something, but I guess the only thing left then would be the banning of organized religion, LOL!!