Smelling The Coffee: 2010

The following is one reason. the entire article from this month's issue of Church & State Magazine Page not found - Americans UnitedCharles Colson & and a bunch of ultra right wing Christians are attempting to turn this country into a Christian Thocracy

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

Unfortunately, they are the ones who are trying to turn this country into a Theocracy with their irrevalent, archaic and radical views.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

They are, the loudmouths such as Sarah Palin, Ken Huckabee, Charles Colson & James Dodson.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

Yes I do since they espouse the exact opposite to Jesus, intolerance.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

Except that voting is only a small part of what a direct democracy would be. In a direct democracy all the citizens are legislators. Thus proposing, forming, debating & voting on issues. How, even with modern technology would you feel that this is possible?

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

it's not the technology, it is the logistics. Direct democracy means that all registered voters are the legislature. Each would have to be logged in and verified that they are on the voting list, before the session could start. What would you do if a roll call vote was ordered. Each voter must state yea or ney, one at a time. Have you ever seen thee only thing similar to a direct democracy, the New England Town meeting. Even with just a 1000 or so voters it is a logistic nightmare particularly when any voter cam address the meeting on any bill. Imagine a country the size of the USA where any voter can comment on the legislation. The bill would never come to a vote. suppose that 100,000 people wanted to comment on the bill at 1 minute each, that would be 69 days, at 24 hours per day, without stopping.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

Then it would not be direct democracy. Each comment must be hea4rd by all not a mismash of a number of comments that no one could listen to at the same time.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

Again as in my post #191 this would not be direct democracy. In a direct democracy the bills are formulated, encoded, debated and voted on by all citizens.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

Then you would expect the voters to be more educated, skilled or knowledgeable in voting for laws? A number of years ago there was a local referendum, I don't recall the particulars, but the jist was that a measure that had been passed by the legislature was challenged by a citizen's group and they gathered enough signatures to get it on the ballot. The problem was the wording of the referendum a yes vote was in favor of rejecting the bill while a no vote kept the measure on the books. A large number of voters thought they were keeping the bill by voting yes, even a teacher who taught civics.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

I don't think so, it was the fault of reading into the question. What the measure attempted was to reverse a bill thus a yes vote was to eliminate the bill and it was worded that way.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

I was just pointing out that even a learned individual may not be capable of dealing with what, in this topic, of direct democracy can be expected if Legends ideas were met.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008