One sad reason the lunk-headed federal government gets involved in these things is people on the Right who don't like what others are doing try to use the federal government to force what they think on others. And as we all know that sword cuts both ways and eventually cuts all of us out of our God-given liberties.
Individual and states' rights and freedoms are the cornerstone of the freest constitutional republic the world has ever seen. Hard to keep it (as Benjamin Franklin once implied) because freedom doesn't always go our way, but in the long run, a free society is the healthiest and happiest on earth. (Besides, we can always move to another state (like we are right now) that lines up closer to our values.)
This is true, and likely one of the reasons people call the GOP and conservatives
the party of stupid
: for it is a truly stupid person who never considers how might the law I am proposing be used against me?
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And as we all know that sword cuts both ways and eventually cuts all of us out of our God-given liberties.
Bravo! — That is the realization that is missing.
Individual and states' rights and freedoms are the cornerstone of the freest constitutional republic the world has ever seen. Hard to keep it (as Benjamin Franklin once implied) because freedom doesn't always go our way, but in the long run, a free society is the healthiest and happiest on earth. (Besides, we can always move to another state [like we are right now] that lines up closer to our values.)
Precisely! (Good luck on the move, BTW.) Much of the problem we have now is because most people believe that the FedGov is [utterly] superior to the States, just read this article; it frames things as a First Amendment issue — it is not, the First is binding on only Congress (if you claim that the 14th Amendment incorporation
causes it to apply against States, then you are asserting that it is a process which magically changes the text as it passes through) — the correct framing would be in Article II, Section 11 of the New Mexico Constitution:
Every man shall be free to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and no person shall ever be molested or denied any civil or political right or privilege on account of his religious opinion or mode of religious worship. No person shall be required to attend any place of worship or support any religious sect or denomination; nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.
States are creating homosexual marriage, conservatives must fight to protect marriage, period. Marriage is an absolute, not just another political difference between left/libertarians, and conservatives/traditional Americans.