Calling it "overheated rhetoric" doesn't make it overheated.
Imposing laws that have the effect of imposing religious beliefs -- what's the difference between that and deciding what church a person ought to go to? One is just a matter of what the proponents think they can get away with (but they'd try to interfere with the other just as well).
The Religious Right have learned their rhetoric. They cloak their arguments in things like "we're just trying to outlaw murder." "You're opposed to murder, aren't you?" It's really no different from push polls (the other topic at hand).
Framing the debate as "just a law" -- that's rhetoric. Framing an argument for something other than it is -- that's rhetoric.
#53 - Summer Storms -- you've said it far more eloquently than I have. Thank you.
#39 -- sorry, but I don't get your point. Literally, I'm not understanding what you're trying to say. Sorry.
I think the "war on Christmas" thing is absurd rhetoric. I don't think public money should be spent on religious holiday decorations, but to call it a war on Christmas is simply absurd.
(I could, however, be persuaded to mount a war on St. Patrick's Day but only for very different reasons.)
On the other hand, I don't see anything wrong with someone expressing what it is the righteous right has been trying to do everyone in this nation for the past twenty years -- and that is interfere with the faith of millions.
Until science can prove when Human life begins and dumb matter ends, it's a matter of conscience. Matters of conscience are guided by religious/spiritual beliefs (including the decision not to believe). Therefore, it's a matter of taking away a woman's right to choose her religion.
Cloaking it in the government's responsibility to prevent and punish "murder" is just a red herring. Let's call it what it is -- is imposing religious beliefs on others.
Ursula @ #36 -- thanks for saving me the trouble of explaining my phrase.
Where I'm from, he's being put forth as someone who "doesn't believe in evolution," is against a woman's right to choose her own religious beliefs, who supports prayer in schools, and who opposes gay rights.
I think he's a right-wing nut job.
What am I missing?
BTW -- I HATE it when jerks coopt the names of otherwise reasonable political philosophies and turn them into objects of buffoonery, stupidity and ignornance. I'm just sayin'.
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