Yeah, that's a great way of explicating what I think is the actual argument (though the words Bartlet used don't quite match up exactly -- probably because there is some Jewish erasure/conflation going on there, as ferret postulates)
But I'm kind of surprised you haven't run across people who do the holy kiss. When I was in Catholic choir (I'm not Catholic, I just got hired to help the alto section), many of the older (and generally more religiously conservative) members did the holy kiss thing. Of course, Catholicism does answer your question of "who should decide," so I guess that particular data point isn't really relevant to your argument.
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Date: 2017-09-21 05:30 am (UTC)But I'm kind of surprised you haven't run across people who do the holy kiss. When I was in Catholic choir (I'm not Catholic, I just got hired to help the alto section), many of the older (and generally more religiously conservative) members did the holy kiss thing. Of course, Catholicism does answer your question of "who should decide," so I guess that particular data point isn't really relevant to your argument.