http://lenmunsil.com/2008/02/lincolns-birthday/ President of Arizona Chrsitian University Fri, 19 Aug 2016 02:48:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://lenmunsil.com/2008/02/lincolns-birthday/#comment-196 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:05:46 +0000 http://dev.lenmunsil.com/2008/02/lincolns-birthday/#comment-196 Len,
Your analysis only works if you believe the Civil War was about slavery. The war wasn’t about slavery. The war was about state rights vs. federal rights.
And, of course, the Republican party, generally, has actually upheld state rights over federal rights.
The mantra, “Local government is the best arbiter of what needs to be dealt with locally” is a Republican slogan.
Taking your line on the Republican Party as the party for freedom, many Republicans have argued for the pro-choice position. I don’t agree with them, however, I do understand how they might come to this conclusion.
However, if you argue that the argument against Slavery was really a ‘pro-life’ argument (which comes through the movie, Amazing Grace, which I watched last evening), then I think you can make an apriori case for the abolition of slavery and anti-abortion coming from the same root.
Just some thoughts.

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