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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: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
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Washington
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John Calvin Thomas
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To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.
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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
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I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.
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No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.
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