Why we need the separation of church and state

[pgwenthold]

A few Purdue students were recently arrested on child pornography charges. Here is a response from a letter to the editor of the local rag:

Purdue University president Martin Jischke and the board of trustees should give the "alleged" child-porn, Internet perverts honorary doctorate degrees. Better yet, the university should consider hiring these child-sex predators into the sociology department as visiting professors. ...

Purdue has embraced homosexuality by supporting "life partners" with health benefits. If the university supports one type of sexual perversion, it should embrace all types of sexual perversion...

But there is no consistency with you liberal crackpots.


I am saddened and frightened by the fact that this person cannot tell the difference between the consenting behavior of two adults and the sexual exploitation of children.

The next thing you know, they will be accepting people who eat pork and wear clothes with mixed fibers. And don't get me started on the whole "sowing two different seeds in the same field" issue. Has he seen the Ag school test plots on the edge of town? Liberal heathens, all of them.

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by pgwenthold
I am saddened and frightened by the fact that this person cannot tell the difference between the consenting behavior of two adults and the sexual exploitation of children. I agree with your point here, but what does it have to do with seperation of church and state?

[c4ts]

When you don't seperate church and state, religion becomes a political institution and bad things happen, like inquisitions.

[Checkmite]

Originally posted by Upchurch
I agree with your point here, but what does it have to do with seperation of church and state?

You stole my words.

[pgwenthold]

Originally posted by Upchurch
I agree with your point here, but what does it have to do with seperation of church and state?

1) This person apparently needs religion to tell him right from wrong. Be thankful we live in a country that allows him to practice such a religion.

2) Be double thankful that we live in a country that does not base its laws on such religious notions. If not for the separation, this person's attitudes could be forced upon us all as law of the land.

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by pgwenthold


1) This person apparently needs religion to tell him right from wrong. Be thankful we live in a country that allows him to practice such a religion.

2) Be double thankful that we live in a country that does not base its laws on such religious notions. If not for the separation, this person's attitudes could be forced upon us all as law of the land. Ooooh...

Okay, so it really wasn't a discussion as much as object lesson? I mean, I agree that it's a good thing that the government allows him to think that way and I also agree that it's a good thing the government allows me not to think that way.

[Shroud of Akron]

i agree with the your statement on church and state, but someone could believe these things without religion. a biggot is a biggot, no matter there their personal beliefs.

[pgwenthold]

Originally posted by Shroud of Akron
i agree with the your statement on church and state, but someone could believe these things without religion. a biggot is a biggot, no matter there their personal beliefs.

You really think so? I don't. Sure, there might be non-religious people who don't like homosexuals, but I don't believe they would be to the extent where they would group homosexuality and child pornography. Most people can tell the difference, I'd hope.

[BobM]

1) This person apparently needs religion to tell him right from wrong. Be thankful we live in a country that allows him to practice such a religion.The guy never mentioned religion, at least in your excerpt. Your assumption is probably correct; but it is just an assumption.

[MRC_Hans]

Where I live, church and state are not separate. We have a State Church (which is Lutheran Christian). The advantage of this is that, as a state institution, the Church is always and will always be pretty tame and inefficient.

Hans

[Akots]

Would it be possible to combine the current state of Politics and Religion into a single, unfied whole? It'd make it easier to fling the whole bunch into the sun, or chain it to the bottom of the sea.