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Originally Posted by craigimass
As to religion, I have no problem with people using a guideline, ruler or tool they find useful. But back to the little point I was making about that Buckley quote - it doesn't seem to say that. It seems to "diss" the laws of the land for obedience to some God. As with any words, there are lots of ways to read them....but that is the meaning I gleam. "Act not from the laws of man or my own conscience, but be obedient to God and my Ancestors" or something like that...seems like a decent translation.
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From Sway's sig - "I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth." Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.
To me the quote just says that Buckley would try to do the right thing regardless of what laws men might pass to the contrary, that's how I read it. He does seem to be suggesting that man's law is fickle by using the word "yesterday".