Let’s not get distracted. We can deal with marriage after we deal with $18 Trillion in debt. Once we put the feral gummint back in it’s cage I think the marriage thing will sort out fine, along with flag burning and all the other distractions.
You can’t make any connection between the debt and hedonism? People now define the pursuit of happiness with more and more pleasure. But too much pleasure always leads to too much paid. That’s one reason why that good pagan Aristotle, and indeed most moralists, speak of moderation in all things. Our elites are careful with their assets and even with their own lives, but they encourage the rest of us to immoderation, and then punish us who save and lead careful lives.
So true - we get so diverted with much that hasn't a whit of relevance as far as getting ourselves out of the swirling waters as we head down the drain. If we get our constitution back and rein in our government and its excesses, the rest will take care of itself. Satan grins big time as we get diverted with self-righteous pablum and ignore that which maintains the downward slide.
An open sewer with a balanced checkbook is still an open sewer. An immoral and irreligious people cannot hope to hold a government accountable.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”- John Adams