
Well, I saw this on Deborah Lipp’s Site and I have to answer:
Put simply legislating morality is an exercise in futility and plain wrong.
Let me be clear here, I don’t like abortions. I thnk there aretoo many people out there who want children who would do a good job raising them (and I mean single fathers, mothers and homosexual couples as well) to have a fetus aborted.
But let me be equally plain: It is not my place to say to another what they can and can’t do with their life, their body and their karma. Trying to create laws that force the moral structure of one group on another is stupid.
That’s what has happened in Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran and so on. One religious group decided that women are second class citizens and only good for having more men, and thus force them to dress in certain proscribed ways. Those that don’t are executed for refusing to conform, sometimes to the point of letting a school full of girls burn to the ground with their wives and daughters within simply becaue they don’t have the right headcovering on.
I know the arguments for those ladies wearing head scarves, and if they wish to participate, that’s good. But to force it with laws is not right.
Either a person behaves in the manner their morals direct them to do, or they do not. My morals and ethics are not anyone else’s. This is true even for my wife and daughter, and it is how it should be.
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