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If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
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If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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