EXAMPLE OF FOUR POINT REFUTATION

1. My opponent said in Contention 1 that religious groups will enact federal

legislation to suit their own agendas.

2. I contend that the federal courts would strike down any religiously inspired

legislation.

3. Evidence for this comes from J. Phillip Wogeman, professor of Christian Social

Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary, in The American Academy of Political

and Social Science Annals, November, 1979. Wogeman says, "Religious groups,

when they go lobbying for (their own theological views) must expect them to be

struck down eventually by the courts even if they are enacted into law."

4. The impact of this evidence is that our government has checks and balances, such

as the courts, so that a single interest will be prevented from dominating the

legislative process.