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(he was living as a humanist \226 trusting in his own ability to create t\
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(She\222s calling you to leave your home)Tj
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(For power, fun and fame.)Tj
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(She wants your wife and children, too.)Tj
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(She\222ll never compromise)Tj
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(Her pagan plan of death,)Tj
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(From Mistress Jezi\222s plans.)Tj
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(Your undivided life.)Tj
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(This is the dear one of your youth,)Tj
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(A lifetime spent disciplining them)Tj
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(Devote your heart and sacrifice,)Tj
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(\226C. S. Lewis, )Tj
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(\226Cal Thomas, )Tj
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(\226 his State Department was at the United Nations Habitat Conference i\
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("But the United States immediately proposed an amendment calling not for\
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(CEDAW. CEDAW is the most potent international anti-family weapon current\
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ndful of developing )Tj
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(most women of the developing world.)Tj
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(Ironically, these nations actually won a victory, not only for themselve\
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(\226Kathryn Balmforth, )Tj
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( "The chief reason America has remained a free country is the widespread\
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our freedom from )Tj
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("My good friend, the late Reverend Stephen Dunker, C. M., was a missiona\
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(the reign of terror began, with public executions and cruel imprisonment\
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(of being a \221landlord\222 was dragged through the streets and executed\
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overnment moving to )Tj
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(million illegal guns are in circulation in Britain, leading to a rise in\
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("Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D., described his first-hand experience in Cuba.\
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(confiscate all firearms. As soon as the Cubans were disarmed, that was t\
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(freedom.)Tj
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("Tyrannical governments kill far more people than private criminals. The\
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("The first line of safety has to be an ability to defend yourself. In so\
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(threatened. Some cities criminalize carrying guns for self-defense but m\
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(people carrying money or jewels. Are money and jewels more important to \
protect than )Tj
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(: \221The first problem is to slow down the number of handguns being pro\
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(make possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition - except for \
the military, )Tj
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(police, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed \
gun collectors - totally )Tj
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(the only people who would have guns would be those who enforce the law.\222\
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(\221enforced the law\222 at Waco? or at Ruby Ridge? or invading a Miami \
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(being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people\
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(shall not be infringed.\222 Polls show that up to 80% of the public beli\
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("If the First Amendment read \221A free press being necessary to the sec\
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(Congress shall make no law respecting. . . the freedom of speech, or of \
the press,\222 nobody )Tj
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(would argue that free speech belongs only to newspapers. Likewise, they \
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(-)Tj
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( "I was a Summit student for the first session of this year. Thank you f\
or having this )Tj
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my worldview and )Tj
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(she would circulate my letter among the editorial staff. I also wrote th\
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(Mountain News \(I live here in Colorado\) and my letter to the editor is\
in the June 14, 2000, )Tj
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("God Bless!)Tj
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