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- From: reh@wam.umd.edu (Huddleston)
- Subject: Re: Not So Good Bumper Sticker
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.023908.25935@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:39:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.165129.18302@ncsu.edu> dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <l8l0r8INNpd1@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- >emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh) writes:
- >
- >> Speaking of bumper stickers, I saw one that really says it all about
- >> the religious right's goals:
- >>
- >> Praise the Lord, and Damn the Constitution
- >
- >Considering the shakey foundation upon which the Supreme Court
- >discovered the so-called right to abortion, I would think this
- >bumper sticker would be better suited for describing the
- >goals of the pro-abortion movement.
- >
- >>Eric
- >
- >
- >Doug Holtsinger
- >
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-
- I just finished reading the Constitution and Ammendments, myself, and
- I think the SC made a sound decision. Maybe you'd care to elaborate on
- which specific parts of the Constitution are "shaky grounds" for the
- position that living, breathing human beings are accountable primarily to
- their own conscience -- and, more specifically, are NOT accountable to yours.
-
- In areas where consideration for "the common welfare" is grounds for setting
- social and legal accountabilities for individual action, perhaps you could
- next argue how the right to of an individual woman to decide how and when to
- bear a child defeats the common welfare of all individuals in this country.
-
- While you can toss religion in there if you really have to (someone will,
- eventually), I presume by your comments that you can base your arguments
- on the contents of the Constitution, exclusively.
-
- --
- This posting is the result of years of American public school and television.
- Scary thought, isn't it?
-
- Richard Huddleston, reh@wam.umd.edu NeXTSTEP is better: Boycott Microsoft.
-