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Originally posted by sgtclub
But what has been their influence? Seriously, there is a lot of lip service paid, but I don't really see them having much effect. Abortion is legal. The proposed consitutional amendment is a pipe dream. The 10 commandments were removed.
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The abortion language should never have appeared as it did in the platform. As has been established here numerous times, nobody has a clue when life truly begins. Not the GOP, not the Dems, not anybody.
The platform point should have related to process. The harm is alienating people. Every party should try and be the party of common sense, the party of rational thought, the party of democracy and capitalism and charity-begins-at-home compassion. Well, at least this should be the GOP.
I'll endorse RT's reservations about the final two clauses (fix the death penalty now before you expand it..., but once fixed then A-OK for forcible rape if that's what the public wants).
Anyway, the only one that really threw me was that abortion thing, and its only because its not an enforceable or defensible position IMHO. Not even defensible in biblical terms.
