and you've got my vote.

nt

we would have to be careful, too many of them would enjoy it.

If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him.

So I get to shoot proselytizers on sight, or run 'em down with my car.

So I did neither during that period of my life, but I didn't go on about it if others did. I was taught that belief was a personal matter between me, god, and the the pastoral mediator.

Then I stopped practicing the religion. I reached the conclusion that I couldn't find anything wrong with premarital sex, so long as you weren't hurting anybody. So I did that until I got married.

I knew without having to be told that extramarital sex would hurt my spouse and probably many others as well. So I don't do that, because I believe it's morally wrong.

But despite my conviction that marital infidelity is wrong, belief is a personal matter between me, my spouse, and my family.

What I cannot abide is people telling me what I ought to do or what I ought to believe. I am quite capable of making cogent moral decisions without the help of outsiders.

If elected people have extramarital affairs, and that's OK with everyone involved, I don't really care. If all involved are not OK with it, then the person committing the act is a jerk, and I still don't really care. In neither case does that person have the right to dictate my personal morality.

And yes, I believe there are universal moral truths. Not absolute truths, but universal ones.

not sure why some bishops belief should be imposed on women.
Just trying to think of a wide-held religious belief which were discussion of imposing it on elected officials would
make them think about the path they are walking on

Good luck with the second.

I have my own theory that most of these folks (the hypocritical types running for and occupying public office) are pathological narcissists who think the rules don't apply to them.

Noted the conspicuous absence of ashy smudges on the sanctimonious mugs of Newtie and Frothie the other night. Again, not that I care about adherence to a barbaric superstition, but the failure to walk the walk was noted, and not just by me.

And, rest assured that safe, private abortions will always be available to these people, just as they always have.

I'm all in favor of that "strangling the last king with the entrails of the last priest" solution.

A sweater-vest is the most effective chastity-device a modern man can wear.

However, I fully support your beliefs that elected officials should wear chastity belts, just allow them to take them off to use the bathroom.
The use of professionals for inspection is also a good idea.....