Eric Rowe #fundie new.facebook.com

[on a thread in the Barr for President group discussing the Constitution Party's platform]

"They want to establish a Republic based and guided on Biblical principles. That is called a theocracy."

No that's not a theocracy. All people are religious, including atheists. And all people have ethical systems that are based on their religion whatever that may be. And all people base their ideas of what government should and shouldn't to on their ethics. It's only a theocracy when they seek to legislate religion itself. Being pro-life is not theocratic. Neither is being for freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Though all of those ideas are ones that Christians hold on the basis of biblical principles.

"That platform states the government should discriminate against gays."

How does it say that government should discriminate against gays? You mean like in the military, which is something government should be in control of and has every right to run according to whatever is best without regard for political correctness, or do you mean that it says the federal government should somehow force the states to punish citizens for being gay? I highly doubt that anything in that platform says the latter.

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