Hello everybody.

    Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the
[Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a
terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and
governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting
in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried
to deal with them.
    .....
    The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not
using their religious clout with wisdom.... I'm frankly sick and tired of
the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if
I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just
who do they think they are?... I will fight them every step of the way if
they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of
"conservatism." 

- Barry Goldwater, (1909-1998), five-term US Senator, Republican Party
nominee for President in 1964*, Maj. Gen., US Air Force Reserves, author of
The Conscience of a Conservative.

Matt

... "The state has no business in the bedroom of the nation."-
Pierre Trudeau
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