[The Urban Sombrero]

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Of course, you can't take the four tools of the article and apply them.

Essential liberty and freedom of conscience suggest that if two grown men seek to be in relationship with each other the civil government ought to grant them equal protection in the eyes of the law. I am perfectly willing to stand before "Nature's God" and agree that the human conscience should not be compelled, but should remain essentially free in such matters.

Freedom of action is not the same as rightness of action.

You have wed your faith to politics and a certain kind of patriotism. If you are suggesting that the inerrancy of Scripture is somehow tied to the founding of this nation, that's a fool's errand. The truth is that among the Founders, quite a few were more Deist than Christian. Deists, of course, were not atheists, but more religious rationalists. It is, again, surprising to me that you would even argue this point. Did you attend Bob Jones?