Originally posted by off2cjb:
Moby, lets not be so liberal and literal in our thinking. OK, not every commandment out of the Ten gets used in our laws. Some of them do however.
But isn't that picking and choosing? I mean, if we are going to base it on them, why not all of them?
(by the way...isn't "liberal and literal" kind of contradictory? It's one or the other, isn't it? (I know...you meant liberal in the political sense
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Bush's faith based initiative is for every religion under the sun. Any religious school doing good work for the kids and community will be subsidized. This isn't just for Christians. And it isn't being pushed upon you.
It's being pushed on me, because some of my tax dollars go toward it.
(Yes, using the same argument, some of your tax dollars used to go to pro-choice groups.)
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