[Vision2020] Re: And the award for genuine tolerancegoesto.................

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Tony,

I'll stick my responses below your comments so I don't have to cut and 
paste:

>
>Sunil,
>
>Attacks on the Supreme Court have come from various sources, yes.  But  
>would
>you deny a pattern over the last 30 some years by the left to use the  
>courts
>in a more activist manner in pursuit of its agenda?  Roe v Wade for  
>example?

Tony:  You're not providing an example of the left attacking the courts, but 
instead of what you call 'the left' using the courts.  Not the same thing at 
all.  In fact, the right has attacked the left for doing so, and the courts 
for their decisions.
>
>With regard to Lincoln, are you unaware of the preoccupation over Old Abe's
>sexual orientation swirling about among historians?  It is my understanding
>that the consensus is now that these speculations had no grounding in 
>objective
>  reality but emanated from quarters with a predictable social agenda.
>
No, I'm not aware of this at all, really.  I just googled it and saw some 
cites discussing your claim, but this is the first I've ever heard of it.

Frankly, in Moscow it's not the left that's critical of Lincoln; take a look 
and you'll see.

>Public education attacked by the left?  Apparently we are not from the  
>same
>planet.  Yours appears to be surrounded by a thick, morbid fog which  
>prevents
>a clear view of reality.  I've spoken to a fair number of  educators over 
>the
>last 25 years who bemoan their inability to discipline their  students, to
>prepare and present their own local curriculum via their own  methods free 
>from
>the tyranny of federal edict.  Course I'd have to admit  here that Bush has
>failed to call for the elimination of the Department of  Education.......

Again, it's certainly not the left in Moscow attacking public education.  
Disagreements over what different people consider appropriate in school are 
not attacks on public education on the whole.

Isn't Bush issuing Federal edicts right now through No Child Left Behind?  
Is he on the Left?

Say, you never answered my questions regarding the right's wish to control 
contraception issues.  Do you believe that this is not interference in 
people's personal decision-making?

And finally, yes, you oppose gay marriage and we likely won't change each 
other's minds on the issue; but do you believe consensual gay sex between 
adults should be criminalized?

Sunil
>
>Best,  --Tony
>
>PS:Please advise DJA that the Supreme Court didn't appoint Bush, the
>American People ELECTED him. :)

You're on your own here.

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