RE: Objective Standards

["Joan Opyr" <auntiestablishment@hotmail.com>]

Sunil asked:
"Or would you prefer to apply Old Testament law, all of it, to all of
us?"

And Dale replied:
"Would you prefer the Bhagavad Gita?"

I'm guessing that Sunil would prefer that we apply the United States 
Constitution.  So would I.  That is the only standard by which we can or 
should determine the validity of our laws, and, considering the diversity of 
peoples, faiths, and politics in this country, it's as close to consensus as 
we're going to get.

One of the happy consequences of the separation of church and state is that 
we don't have to "wing it."  We're governed by a secular document and not by 
anyone's particular choice/interpretation of a sacred text.

--Joan Opyr







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