Reply #125: I tend to agree with your basic point [View All]

[Time for change]

It seems to me that what you are advocating in a nutshell is the separation of church and state. That is something I am confident that Jefferson and most of our other Founding Fathers would have agreed with -- though that degree of separation of church and state has never taken place in this country with regard to marriage.

One point where I disagree with you is your contention that the hard core fundies would be satisfied with your idea. I doubt that very much. Hard core fundies do not want a separation of church and state. They want a state that pressures the population to accept their religious ideas and make them into law -- much like the hard core fundies of Islam.