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Los Angeles Hoo

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It's not a straightjacket, but it does have tremendous weight. And...


...if you are going to try to make a case that words don't mean what words mean, then you better have a damn good case, and you don't.

As for the preamble in the 2A, it does not limit the people's right to keep and bear arms. It simply states that one justification for that right is the necessity of fielding a militia.

On abortion, you are deflecting again with nonsense hypotheticals. Abortion is a unique issue because at least two lives are involved in the decision, yet only one person is making the decision (absent society's speaking for those unable to speak for themselves). It is not akin to a tonsilectomy, where only one life is affected, and no one -- on my side, at least -- is trying to curtail that decision-making. The only people in today's world who are arguing that people don't have the right to make their own personal medical decisions are the COVID tyrants.

On right to life, you are free to have your own opinion about who has a right to life and who doesn't, but so does everyone else, and society is rightfully going to step in to protect life as it sees fit based on the collective sense of the community, and that will vary by community. I may consider a child molester as not having a right to life, but, based on the laws we have democratically passed, I don't have the right to go kill one just based on my own values. You may consider a person in a vegetative state as not having a right to life, but, based on the laws we have democratically passed, you don't have the right to go kill one. That same logic applies to pre-natal lives, as well. Society is going to set those rules.

You're just wrong -- and absurd -- on your last point. Government employees are allowed to pray on their own time, and they can't be punished by the government for doing so. The county clerk question is another nonsense hypothetical. The coach praying -- on his own and on his own time -- does not affect anyone else, does not affect his job duties and does not affect the application of any laws on the books. He is not imposing his religion on anyone else or failing to do his job in any way. That would not be the case in the clerk hypothetical. In that case, the clerk would be imposing his religious views on others from a position of government authority contrary to the law.

[Post edited by Los Angeles Hoo at 06/27/2022 2:58PM]

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Posted: 06/27/2022 at 2:55PM



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