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What Happened to the Republican Party?

Discussion in 'Alley of Lingering Sighs' started by Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, Mar 24, 2005.

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  1. Chandos the Red

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    I can't add much to what Laches has already said so well, but I wanted to comment on this issue of religion/secularism in government, and where the Republican party seems to be headed with this: On-the-one-hand we have the Republican politicans, and others as well, complaining of too much religious fundamentalsim in the Middle East, and it's impact on government there and individual freedom. On the other, there is a complaint that there is not enough religious fundamentalism in American government, (which is a view I don't share, btw). And that our government is somehow not true to the principles of religious belief, especially those principles that supposedly influenced its founding. The founders had an answer to this problem, and it seems that in the matter of government, it is where the focus on this issue should be centered.

    The answer is that we have a written Constitution that defines the powers of government and protects individual freedoms, while protecting religion from governmental interference. Hopefully in the future governments in the Middle East will also have written constitutions that will protect individual freedom, while respecting religious belief.

    It seems to me that the Republican Party of the past used to argue that the Constitution was a document that limited the size of government as well as its scope and inculsivness of any particular set of religious principles, and promoted religious pluralism. Maybe I'm wrong here, Hack, but you and many others of the "majorty" to whom you refer, seem to be headed down a road to a defined set of religious principles that should receive a special place in our government; to put more of a point on this: a Christian set of principles that should get deference outside the scope of Constitutional powers. This can be loosely defined as a theocracy, which is the very thing that is giving us so much of our perceived troubles in the Middle East and their governmental systems, which we are supposedly in the process of "correcting for them." To be sure, they have way less political freedom than we have - but then we have the Constitution. A good suggestion would be for the Republican Party to revisit this document sometime soon.

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