Jesus Chirst, Just jump on the bandwagon and support what you can't control, that is, inless your 18+
Lesser of two evils? OBAMA?! HE'S THE FRIGGIN' ANTICHRIST! Yeesh. Ok, he's not REALLY the antichrist, but he's by far the greater of the two evils. Anyway, I think Palin was a good choice. She's a truly conservative Republican, something this country needs. --- Life, against Gay marriage, she's for gun rights, she's for the war. For all of you Obama supporters, you're just angry because Obama picked some nut that can't keep his mouth shut.
Yes, because someone who isn't one of the moral majority is automatically wrong. Like it or not, who you can marry or what control you have over your body aren't in the Constitution; they're not conservative values, they're religious ones that have been injected into politics as hot-button issues since Reagan's moral majority campaign in the eighties. I agree with gun ownership rights, however; 2nd Amendment, and you've got just as much of a right not to exercise that right if you're seriously of the persuasion that a gun is the reason people kill each other. Obama's track record on the issue isn't good. McCain isn't much better, according to the NRA. I'm not even going to get started on the war. Suffice to say, it was wrong; we need to be focusing on fixing our mistakes, not maintaining a presence there when the Iraqi government wants us out. You want a truly conservative Republican? Look at Ron Paul. He's not the crazy psycho truther that Fox makes him out to be.
These aren't values injected in the 80s. Our country was FOUNDED on the ideals of Christianity(One Nation, under God). It's not something new. The only reason these things weren't put in the constatution to begin with, was because it wasn't something necessary back then. Abortion wasn't a big issue, and neither were gay rights, because there wasn't much of either going on in America. Oh, and abortion's been illegal, until Roe vs Wade. Except now the woman, "Jane Roe", who was in favor of abortion is no longer in favor of it, due to the physical and emotional damage it causes(as well as moral changes) . But, of course, that little detail is ignored.
One nation, under god was put into the Pledge of Allegiance during the '50s to separate us from those godless commies. I don't get it: we're a nation with no established religion, but you say we're a Christian nation nonetheless? The reason abortion and gay marriage aren't in the Constitution is because it's not the federal government's job to regulate that. Go protest at your state capitol if you don't want gay people to have the same rights you do. It's not because it "wasn't an issue," it's because it "wasn't their job." Abortion and gay marriage became hot-button issues when Reagan and friends tried to stop us from sliding down the godless, immoral slope of the '70s. People like you agreed with it, and wanted those things to be illegal for all. What you want to do is project your Christian beliefs on believers and nonbelievers alike. You think that's OK. The Constitution, however, does not. See numerous state, federal, and supreme court decisions. We're not this Christian nation that you people like to throw around during national prayer week and whatnot. We were founded to be free from a state religion, among other things. Religion has no place in politics, despite what your pastor says.
Funny, then why was abortion illegal until Roe vs Wade? Someone had to have made that decision. It was law adopted from England, called the Common Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_t...tion_before_Roe Funny, if there were laws in place, wouldn't that mean that they felt it their duty to regulate it? Odd, I wonder why they felt it important to protect an unborn child then, but not now? Also, it's odd, that 26 states have made constitutional amendments barring same sex marriages. 19 other states only allowing unions. Obviously, more of the country agrees with me than you'd like to admit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_sex_marr...#Current_status Huh. 26 plus 19 is 45. 45 out of 50...Sounds kinda like we have a majority vote here. That's what's SUPPOSED to be cool about our country. The people are supposed to be able to choose these things. But, we have judges that bend the rules, taking the constitution and bending it to their whims, ignoring the will of the people. Maybe you'll get your wish, and it'll be legal everywhere. Only 45 states to go. Oh, and BTW, the Declaration of Independence speaks volumes, "All men are endowed by their CREATOR with unalienable Rights". Guess your teacher left that out maybe. http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm
Great. The Declaration of Independence isn't the law. It's a list of reasons why we separated from England. The Founding Fathers happened to believe in God. Good on them. Didn't mean they forced that on the rest of us when they wrote the Constitution (you know, that document that spells out what's legal and what's not at a federal level?). Guess your Sunday school leader left that out in America is a Christian Nation 101. Abortion pre-Roe vs. Wade: Those laws were state laws. It's completely legal for a state to ban something, provided that ban isn't unconstitutional. That's why I can't get morning-after pills where I live. I don't care if a state bans gay marriage or abortion. I do care about federal legislation that does, because it's unconstitutional at a federal level. A federal gay marriage ban would simply impose the religious beliefs of Christianity (and Judaism and Islam, for the matter -- they're against it, too) on the entire nation, and that violates the first amendment. English Common Law is not American federal law. We based much of our laws, things like firearms rights and freedom of speech, on it. We did not, however, put gay marriage into the Constitution because it would violate the freedoms this country was founded upon. The reason that our leaders felt a "duty" to regulate abortion, gay marriage, etc. is because they were Christian. 80% of America considers itself Christian in one way or another, and that number was far higher in the 1800s. Those leaders did what they felt morally obligated to do. It does not make it right or legal. Some state leaders felt slavery was OK, too. Most of America didn't really care about it even during the civil war; they were willing to let the South stay slave so long as there wasn't fighting. Give me one good reason that gays shouldn't marry, apart from your religious beliefs. Don't say they can't raise kids; that's been proven wrong. Actually, don't bother; you can't. Gay marriage bans are simply one more way people like you have injected religion into politics.
