[MD] Tea Bagging

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Mark]
While I like progress, sometimes it is in the wrong direction.  An increasingly
overly intrusive government is one such wrong direction. 

[Arlo]
And you feel that dismantling the separation of church and state will curtail
government intrusion???

As I mentioned last time, those railing against government intrusion the
loudest are also the ones seeking to use the government to coerce others to
behave like them. This is like the mother in the school I mentioned. They have
NO trouble with intrusions like deny Muslim the freedom to wear a veil, or
making flag burning a federal crime, or having the government define who you
can marry. It is simple substituting coercion upon them with coercion upon
others.

There is no doubt that government, left unchecked, can slip towards
totalitarianism. But government is also a safeguard AGAINST intrusion. The
First Amendment specifically defined a wall that protected you FROM coercion.
And that's the kicker, the people who most vocally want to tear down this wall
WANT to do so to coerce others. 

Again, its like the woman who wanted "creationism" in school... nobody else's
"creationism", mind you, just HERS. This defines Tea Baggery to the "Tea" (as
it were).