[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by spareparts

didn't austrailia jsut recently outlaw the private ownership of guns?

Handguns except under certain circumstances. People can still own shotguns and rifles. I have two friends that live in Aus and they explained it to me a while back.

CTT... (and others)... let me remind you all that when I was growing up in public school we did exactly that. We saluted the flag and a student read a passage from the bible.. usually "though I walk throught he valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil"..etc. It wasn't Catholic, Protestant, ***ish, Hindu or anything else.. it was inspirational words...Don't you guys see that? Take the labels off of things and they work for every religion. (WHY does the server filter out J ew, but not Catholic or Protestant or any other religion? Isn't that reverse discrimination?) :p

I'm also pro-choice.. I believe that everyone has the choice to say yes or no to having sex.. but once that sex makes a baby, and you kill that defenseless baby, it's murder. I know others have different views, and they are entitled to them... This is just my view. (I'll bet that if you let that child be born, and allowed it to grow old enough to make an intelligent decision.. (a choice).. it would tell you that it wanted to continue living. It didn't want to be killed because someone else didn't want to be inconvenienced)

And don't get me started on Saluting the flag... Too many people in our history have died defending that piece of cloth... it represents our nation, and the people that sacrificed everything so that others might live in freedom. Saluting the flag is nothing more than an affirmation, honoring them and pledging oneself to do the same, if need be, so that others may live freely. I would lay down my life for anyone in my family.. Mother, brother, sister, wife, kids, etc. What's wrong with extending that family out to include all peoples in our nation? Other people have died for me.. for everyone reading this.. can I, as a citizen of this nation, do less?

Willy, I wasn't advocating governemnt establishing a religion. Far from it. It would be the last thing I wanted.. But understand the mindset of the framers of our constitution.. They had left England to be free from state established religion. But all of them believed in God. They just wanted to be free to practice that belief as they saw fit.

I did notice that no one objected to the 2 martini lunch or the mandatory 3:30pm happy hour or the 4 day work week...