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To: Katelew who wrote (94924)	11/9/2008 9:37:35 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 543798

if I expressed the notion that maybe families were better off back when more women stayed home to raise the children and volunteer in schools and communities, would you assume I would, if I had that power, force women to do that? Well, I am not sure at the moment- it has sounded as if you might make it harder for them not to do so- for their own good. :) If you stated only that view, I would agree with you, just as I agree with you that not shopping, working, etc on Sunday might be healthy for a very busy household. But when you start controlling people's choices by turning your opinion into law "for their happiness or betterment", it stops being just an opinion. So when you said "maybe we should reinstitute Blue Laws" to encourage..., it isn't the religious aspect of it that surprises me, but that you would suggest something so patently about very subjective moral standards and life style and which removes individual choices to favor yours. That isn't encouragement, that's coercion. Several people-- probably the same ones :)- had the same reaction to mandatory community service, which essentially takes the "volun" out of the word "volunteer". No free will about it. It isn't about religion for me; it's about any group that thinks it should be able to mandate personal behaviors. The exclamation points were really just an abundance of enthusiasm at that hour.. and a couple of glasses of wine.