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From: robert@weitek.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Supreme Court Ruling on Sodomy
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Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 16:21:40 EDT
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>> >In article <318@hp-sdd.UUCP> nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes:
>> >In this light, does it change your opinion of the ruling?  Do you wish the
>> >government to certify ok and not ok sexual habits?  

>> In article <848@unirot.UUCP> ooblick@unirot.UUCP (Mikki Barry) writes:
>> But to seriously answer your questions:
>> NO and YES. 

>> The line has to be drawn somewhere.  Hasn't anyone else noticed the moral
>> decay in this country, or is everyone afraid of getting flamed or called
>> a Bible thumper?  


Yes, I've noticed.  *YOUR* moral decay is obvious, for instance.  It used to
be that moral people recognized that government is (at best) an amoral
institution, and can't be trusted to make moral decisions of any sort.

Do the phrases Teapot Dome, Watergate, or Senate page boys mean anything to
you?

Regardless of whether it's morally correct to wish to legislate morality,
it's clearly wrong to give government the power to legislate morality when
it's obvious they'll abuse the power.

Furthermore, *IF* you believe this country is in a state of moral decay, and
that the "truly moral" people are in the minority, hasn't it occurred to you
that legislators will get more mileage pandering to the decadent majority
than the embattled minority, and that the stick you give them could be used
to beat *YOU* over the head?

-- 

	Robert Plamondon
	UUCP: {turtlevax, cae780}!weitek!robert