As I said in an earlier post, slavery was NOT immoral, nor was considering blacks a lower class of people. At least by the majority of people in 1861. By todays standards, absolutely wrong, but not then!
You cannot judge the people of 1861 by the morals of today.
Besides, Lincoln felt the same way. He could have given a damn about slaves, other than it served his political purposes.
“As I said in an earlier post, slavery was NOT immoral, nor was considering blacks a lower class of people.”
Are you really of the belief that there are policies and behaviors that are immoral today that were not immoral 150 years ago?
If that is the case, then there must be policies and behaviors that are immoral today, but will be moral in the future.
Sounds like you may be of the belief that society “progresses” and attitudes and public policy changes to meet the new moral standards.
Do you believe these new moral standards should be set by the legislatures or by the courts?
The overwhelming majority of the Founding Fathers would strongly disagree with you.