Comments on: What’s the difference?

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:16:55 +0000

Oh, I believe the Founding Fathers were Deists. They believed in God. But nowhere do you see any Christian phrases. Belief in God is Christian, Jewish, Muslim. And our country does not force us to believe in a certain way. We are free to believe what we wish.

I don’t think there is so much of a problem with moral decay. I think it is the availability of news through the internet, TV, media. Crimes happening in Asia, Europe, Africa, etc. is right there for us to click on.

One thing I do realize is happening, is all these young women having one or two children with a guy and never marrying him. I am 60 and have asked my daughter, “Why don’t they wait untl they get married before having children?” And she answered, “Marrying somebody is not proof that you will live happily ever after.” But I would think it would provide some measure of security. But in our modern world, where divorces are up to 50% of marriages, I guess she is right.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:34:26 +0000

I agree with you Lee Ann, the things that are going on now have been going on for centuries. However…..the frequency is much much greater! You are very wrong if you truly beleive that our society has not seen a huge moral decay. My Goodness. The lack of consequences for peoples actions is incredible. When I was younger, and even when my kids were growing up, we had consequences for our actions. Today, you hardly dare to discipline your own children for fear some organization is going to take you to task on it. If you are someone in charge of a child and that child doing wrong looks you in the eyes and dares you to touch him or discipline him, knowing you can’t…. we have went down hill!!!
If your theory holds true Lee Ann, and you truly feel that God fearing beliefs have no place in our society, our gov’t. then explain to me why our money has Gods name on it? And if you truly feel that our country has no reason to have any kind of religious backdrop to it, explain this: who are the authors of the Declaration of Independence talking about when they say “endowed by their Creator” or ‘Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence”
I agree they did not promote a specific religious group. And I agree we need to keep our country free so each and every person may worship in his or her own way. But throughout the history of mankind, man has been governed by a set of “morals” set by society.
Many of those “morals” are faith based. If a society as a whole deems, lets say, fraud is ok. Is it morally correct? yet society feels it is ok. In your theory you would have to accept it. And from there, goes the breakdown of society. It will not stop. My father once told me when I asked him if it was really necessary for family devotions before and after every meal. He told me that as each generation lets one little thing slip past, the next generation would let even more slip past. Today, how many of that next generation have already let something little slide past. He was right.
One hundred years ago, you would not have even thought of premarital sex, or an abortion…now…..

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:45:12 +0000

In this day of STDs, AIDS, dangerous crazy people, sex with a stranger is the last thing anybody is going to try to promote. And contraception is never a useless idea. I don’t think it is necessarily a moral problem. Morals and people have been the same that I remember most of my life. You can name any immoral, mean, evil situation, and I can tell you that it was done in the last 100 years, in the last centuries. There really is nothing new under the sun.

I have not seen any outlawing of faith in a moral creator. We live right now in a country that really does allow religious freedom, regardless of what kind of religion it is. Christians are entitled to their religious beliefs and I would fight to the death for your right to worship your religion as you see fit. However, that same belief is there for all religions. I don’t believe that your Christian beliefs should be involved inour laws or judicial system. So we do not allow ANY state religion. What if we all voted to have a statereligion and they all voted in Muslim? Wouldn’t be the same, would it? That’s why there is no official state religion and never will be. You are as free as you ever have been to worship in your own way. I haven’t seen any outlawing of my religious worship in this country yet. Ever. You are as free to worship in your own way, as the Muslim living down the street is allowed to worship in his own way. It wouldn’t be fair to force that Muslim to worship in our Churches, just as you wouldn’t want to be forced to attend his Minaret.

By: Dee ann

Dee ann — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:05:05 +0000

In a society where morals are being outlawed, were a quickie with a stranger is promoted, contraception is a useless idea. Fix the countries morals and all the other problems above fix themselves. That’s kind of hard to do in a country that is also outlawing faith in a moral creator.

By: hard working citizen

hard working citizen — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:00:34 +0000

Single mom- I am a republican and conservative, and i do believe that the system is being abused, but not by you, I 100% agree with you on this. I know that there are those that need help, if you are making and effort to get past the gov’t help thats great and i respect you. However i have seen and you know too that there are quite a few that abuse the system giving the people that deserve it a bad name. The thing that i hate to see is the people that get their gov’t check and do nothing when the have the ability to work and choose not too then other people start doing it too someone earlier hit it on the head when they said the GOP just wants to make sure if you’re on welfare you need the help. Thats why i also support drug testing for welfare, hey if we have to take random drugs tests they darn well better to get their paycheck.

Hard working citizen

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:47:19 +0000

Pro Choice supports just that; a personal choice. It means that although I may not support abortion as a personal choice, I also believe I am not so superior as to believe that I have the right to determine or limit choices available to other women. Just because a woman chooses to have sex does NOT mean she chooses to get pregnant. Every situation is different, and I have no right to know their personal history. Different views/opinions can drag this topic through many different analogies. I can only determine what is best for myself; not for my daughter, my neighbor, my friend, my niece, etc. I do agree with points suggesting that family values, sex education, contraceptives, child care, etc., are great places to start if you want to effect a change. But please don’t believe that you are so superior to others that you may dictate personal decisions, medical or personal, in their life.