These people are PURE EVIL.
It is war. In war there is no substitute for victory. We did not ask for war against them and in fact let them escalate for decades without responding in kind but war it is now. They asked for it. They have it. If they want to continue to escalate they have picked the right dancing partner. They would be wise to wake up before it is too late but I just don’t think they are capable. They really do seem to believe we will just lay down and take it forever.
“These people are PURE EVIL.”
Pure STUPID, too.
You cannot have it both ways, and claim honorable intent.
Word to the Huffington Post:
Among the things the Founders intended is that the Constitution be subject to Amendment.
We passed the 13th Amendment (ending slavery and the counting of slaves as 6/10 persons). The doctrine of original intent as applied to amendments is that amendments are to be interpreted by those who drafted and ratified the amendment.
In terms of “only white people being considered people,” the Democrats did argue that only White European Protestants could be citizens. That was always controversial. Abraham Lincoln said the Dred Scott decision was wrong, and that Republicans would work to overturn it (his Cooper Union speech). He intended to accomplish this peacefully, through the gradual replacement of Democrats on the Supreme Court by Republicans. Then came the Civil War, and after it the 14th Amendment saying that anybody born here was a U.S. citizen. (This created a new controversy - for some people - as to whether being born here was the only way a person could be “a natural born citizen.”)
Only property owners could vote - all but Rhode Island (I think) tied the right to vote to being a property owner (and paying taxes). This was called “Jeffersonian Democracy.” That the country would feature citizens who paid the taxes, served on juries, were members of the militia, and voted. The bore the costs of citizenship, and so earned the rights of citizens to vote. That was changed, essentially, by the 15th Amendment. I prefer the original arrangement, but being a judicial conservative, I think we would need a new amendment to restore the connection from bearing the cost of citizenship to earning the right to vote.
LBGT couples can’t marry. They still can’t. The word “marry” has a particular meaning involving a male part and a female part. When Isaac took Rebekah into a tent and they married (Gen. 24:67), this doesn’t mean that there was a justice of the peace in that tent.
To comment on women: At the Founding, fathers and husbands were financially responsible for children and wives. This was in law, not merely custom. So, women were not fully citizens in the Jeffersonian sense. Some women, who were emancipated (perhaps by being widows), and who were property owners and tax-payers, made the argument that they should have the right to vote. This actually made some sense, and it is thought that at least in New Jersey some women voted during the Early Republic. But, the truth is we have been going through a long period of social and legal evolution on what equality means for women, and we still don’t really know what this means.
Everything bad is Racism for the Left -- except when the Democrats use Racism. They call everything their opponents do as racist.