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Biblical lawmaking, my foot.

“'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; Love your neighbor as yourself. On these two laws, hand all the Law and the Prophets."

And you can't do the first if you can't do the second. Something that is beyond Christian Nationalists, no matter what they call themselves.

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I have always loved this command...and believe it is infiltrating the secular world, it is subversive in its humility and has repeatedly improved cultures throughout time. It is the simplist form of Christianity changing culture on heart at a time.

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I hope you are correct. It is a difficult commandment - loving one's neighbor, no exceptions.

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So this is a "small" correction you need to make in your article. You said that the National Catholic *Register* reported on the conference but you linked to the National Catholic *Reporter*. There's a big difference between the two publications.

I put "small" in quotes because it's an honest mistake for anyone, and I take it you are not Catholic. I was confused at first that the Register would even use the term "integralist" which means different things to different people, but it made sense to me once I clicked on the link and saw that this was a Reporter article written by Brian Fraga.

He linked to the FSU page for the conference, and of course the word *integralist* is nowhere to be found on the page. I've been a Catholic for thirty years and the only people I ever heard complaining about integralism were liberals who threw it around like protestants throw around "fundamentalist". Neither word is precise, and they remind me of analogous B-team villains from DC and Marvel.

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Now there's a helpful comment :)

Fixed, thanks!

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Accurate, too. You are bigoted and intellectually a bit of a weakling. Pauli offers commentary with charity and also accuracy. Be like Pauli.

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Maybe JD Vance is a man who thinks for himself. He did change his mind about Trump after he discovered his presidency was good for America.. Hmmmm. Just saying he is open to admitting he was wrong, something few politicians ever do! And since when do Supreme Court Justices decide cases based on their religion? It is too shallow to judge a justice based on their religion rather than their intellect, integrity and understanding of The Constitution.

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I didn't like Trump when he campaigned in '16. But he did a good job in office, so I supported him afterward. I always figured that people like Vance had a similar experience, and anyone who holds that against him would appear to prefer someone who is close-minded.

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I certainly disagree that he did a good job in office. Attempting to blackmail Ukraine's president isn't a good job. Destabilizing NATO isn't a good job. He betrayed our allies the Kurds and left them to die in Syria. His handling of COVID was abysmal (maybe we could use a little bleach). Even before COVID, he gave tax breaks to the wealthiest and inflated the deficit more than all but two other presidents. Vance hasn't actually done anything change his mind about Trump and criticize childless people.

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None of these charges are true.

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You undermine your opinions when you bring up Trump's alleged bleach prescription which has been thoroughly debunked. I agree that COVID was botched mainly by insisting on a vaccine which never worked, but Biden & co. bought into that big pharma boondoggle so it's a moot point.

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I watched the news conference live where he talked "a cleaning." And the vaccine was successful. Not only did the vaccinated do better than the unvaccinated, they are doing better against long COVID (https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20240221/vaccinated-people-lower-risk-long-covid-study) Whatever Trump did to bring the vaccine out was the best thing he did.

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Also not true and you do what all liberals do. Make a claim and skip along to the next one without actually offering proof.

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Bro, Webmd is biased--not a good source. The drugstores can't even give away the vax now. The coof had a 99.8% survival rate--we were sold a bill of goods. Barely anyone really died of COVID; hospitals were incentivized to lie for money. All this is well-known if you buy someone in the medical industry a few beers, and everyone is afraid to say it publicly.

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Thank you. Someone with some intelligence.

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What an anti-Catholic bigot you are, Mr. Throckmorton.

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That will be news to my Catholic co-author Michael Coulter.

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I don't believe Mr. Throckmorton is anti-Catholic, only fairly ignorant of this subject matter.

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OK. But! A read of many of his posts reveal at least a scintilla of bias. I will try to be charitable.

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If all the dreams of fundamentalist protestantism finally come true and they finally get to impose a state religion I think they may not be so happy when the red robed ecclesiasticals of this Supreme Court decide what the official flavor is.

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I'm pretty sure all the justices wear black robes, don't they?

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What is a "red robed ecclesiastical"? Never heard that one.

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