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Old 12-19-2001, 08:56 PM   #1
jaguar
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if you take Catholic teaching VOLUNTARILY it is consistent, humane, and moral. The problems arise when folks in the church attempt to legislate outcomes instead of preaching lifestyle. If you don't believe that the fetus is human then abortion prohibition becomes anti-human but if the fetus is a person then...
THe specific issue that got my goat recently was the chatholic church's interference/removal of the distribution of the morning after pill (not many outside the church would argue that a few hundred cells constitutes a human) in french PUBLIC high schools - hence seperation of church and state, obviosuly the church is a powerful political force in France, which is depressing itself, although democracy is meant to represent the poeple so....<flamebait> wonder if that explains Shrub......
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