don't need substance or clarity or a smidgen of fact... just ask him.
On Apr 5, 8:36 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> WHAT -- exactly -- is it that these four (4) candidates have supposedly done?
> The article provides no substance.
> Regard$,
> --MJ
> Violence here - liberal.
> Violence abroad - conservative.
> Violence against all - moderate.
> Violence against none - extremist.
> -- Joe SobranAt 10:16 AM 4/5/2012, you wrote:Sanctity of church, state separation
> Romney, Santorum, Gingrich and Paul — it sounds like a law firm
> instead of the Republican candidates who are still standing. The only
> one who, if he went back to his roots may not totally embarrass
> moderate Republicans, is Romney and while winning delegates he is
> still having a hard time galvanizing support. With Santorum winning
> Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana it is clear that the Republican
> fight for the nomination will continue to shouts of glee from
> Democrats.
> Looking at the close polls, it would appear that if Mitt Romney had
> run as he did to become governor of Massachusetts (embracing his
> record, including healthcare reform) he would have had a chance to
> beat Barack Obama. He couldn't win the Republican nomination like that
> but then this year neither could Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan if
> they ran on their records. That is something the Republican Party will
> have the next four years to ruminate about.
> As Americans, we need to take a long look at how to ensure we are
> living up to our Constitution. We are a nation born out of the quest
> for religious freedom and the separation of church and state was
> recognition of that and the desire not to foist one set of religious
> beliefs on everyone.
> The Republican candidates are defiling the meaning of religious
> freedom. They pretend that many religious institutions are still
> supported by the generosity of their believers rather than by money
> from the government, which is paid by all of us. Consequently if they
> hire outside the religion they can no longer expect that everyone
> working for them should be obliged to live within the principles of
> the religion that operates the institution.
> Republicans exemplified by Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum think they
> can turn the world upside down claiming that government is impinging
> on religious freedom when it insists that a hospital or school
> receiving public money allow its employees access to the healthcare
> they would have in every other situation. They conveniently forget we
> are a nation where Christians, Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Baptists,
> believers and non-believers alike have equal rights under civil law.
> There is a wonderful website called Stop the Hate, stop-the-hate.org,
> which has words of wisdom from many religions, poets, politicians,
> activists and authors. They all speak of loving your fellow man and
> woman. It seems Republican candidates have forgotten that and instead
> are preaching hate and separatism in the name of religion.
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> One of the roles of government is to protect minorities and ensure
> they have the same rights as all others. Our Constitution is a living
> document and we have amended it many times over the years, but always
> to guarantee rights, never to take them away. Church law and policy,
> as in the Catholic Church, has also changed over the years from having
> popes who were married with children to requiring them to be single
> and celibate. Another example of the flexibility of the Catholic
> Church would be welcoming Gingrich who is on his third marriage while
> Catholic doctrine doesn't recognize divorce. It is time that we as a
> nation reject those who would try to use either the Constitution or
> religion to deprive people of their civil and human rights.
> While I favor moving forward it would be appropriate to go back to a
> time when we adhered to a doctrine that this country stood for:
> separation of church and state. John F. Kennedy eloquently stated that
> doctrine in a speech he gave in 1960 when he said, "I believe in an
> America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where
> no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic)
> how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for
> whom to vote. And where no church or church school is granted any
> public funds or political preference and where no man is denied public
> office merely because his religion differs from the president who
> might appoint him or the people who might elect him. I believe in an
> America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish,
> where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on
> public policy from the pope, the National Council of Churches or any
> other ecclesiastical source and where no religious body seeks to
> impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or
> the public acts of its officials and where religious liberty so
> indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act
> against all." We elected him because he was willing to state those
> views so clearly.
> Not only will the next president have a say on how this doctrine is
> applied but he will also have the opportunity to appoint Supreme Court
> justices who will sit in judgment on the issue for many generations to
> come.
> More:http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/03/29/sanctity-of-church-state-separation/
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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