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Bryan, You earn my respect with every one of your posts. You state things so well, so thoughtfully, and so balanced too.

I specifically chose these three topics ( religion, marriage and pregnancy ) because I cannot imagine any other issues that are more deeply personal or so private to an individual, so basic to our inalienable rights as humans. It is the absolute height of irony to me that these most personal issues, more than any others, are the same issues that seem to attract the most calls for 'we need a new Federal Constitutional Amendment', calling for government involvement and at the federal level, to have the government in Washington "solve" for us.

And ironically, again, it seems to be those very people who claim to hate Washington the most ("government IS the problem" "get government off our backs" etc ) that are the very first in line to demand that the federal government do something to make others toe their party line. And just where is the base, the very heart, and the stronghold of the national party that so tightly espouses these 'we need an amendment' ideas engraved into their party platform? The deep south, home of the "state's rights" advocates!

But you are correct, Bryan, our rights and lives are much more apt to be infringed closer to home, by the states themselves. I enjoy your posts so much for their ability to make me think, and to turn my thoughts in new directions. I am still pondering your 'two levels of secession' post. I have a number of things and ideas I'd like to discuss about it, it is a wonderful insight, but poses new complex ethical dilemmas for your "principled" border state secessionists.

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