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- From: cstone@husc8.harvard.edu (christopher stone)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Willie Fundie?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.115233.19243@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:52:33 GMT
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- In article <C0p8uE.C8H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wiggins@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Wiggins) writes:
- >I see that guv clinton said goodbye to his (Southern?) Baptist
- >congregation yesterday. Whenever liberals begin to fat-mouth
- >conservatives, they often lump them all together as "Right-Wing
- >Fundamentalists." Since Baptists are about as fundamental as it gets,
- >does that mean that willie is one of the hated fundamentalists, or does
- >it mean that he only pretends to be one whenever there's a photo-op
- >involved? If he is a "fundie," as I've seen them referred to here,
- >then it seems to me that he'd feel compelled to support his church's
- >positions. If he belonged to a country club that excluded blacks or
- >jews, there would be a terrible outcry, but he belongs to an
- >organization that is strongly anti-abortion and against the practice of
- >homosexuality, and nobody has said a word. Why haven't we heard a peep
- >from either of these groups regarding his support of an organization
- >that actively opposes them?
-
- Gee, it seems you have just uncovered two things about religion:
-
- 1) There are a lot of variations between what members of the same
- faith purport to believe (i.e., some Baptists are fundamentalists, others
- not) and
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- 2) Religious people can in good conscience support abortion if they feel
- abortion is not contrary to their religious doctrine.
-
- Chris
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