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Their newsletter states, "if cities sanction homosexual marriage, even by implementing 'domestic partnership' benefits, it will turn our society and its laws upside down...
This is one way to sanction the desire to look and to see violence and to see people hurt. And also, it has this strange soap opera edge to it. So it seems to appeal across different lines in society. There's a narrative element to it, not just violence...
...many ways, no. The mainstreaming of drugs, guns, pornography and raw cultural sewage is not much of an improvement. For all the genius of our technology, there is loose in the land an ambient moral stupidity born of a fatal old overemphasis on "feelings," as in the Rocker sanction: Your words make me, or this group, or that group, feel bad, therefore you have to be silenced...
...each day in the newspaper. We must, and do, sympathize with the victims of these crimes, and we must do what we can to bring about healing. But if we are to create a society in which the lives of all Americans are protected as valuable, then we cannot sanction the killing...
...society that cares about and believes in the dignity of life, yet we sanction capital punishment, allowing it to become so commonplace that it ceases to become a controversial political topic. Each of the major candidates for the presidency supports retaining the death penalty and some even support broadening its use. Texas Gov. George W. Bush leads a state that executes more people each year than any other and is the leading Republican contender. Even both Democratic candidates support...