See, America is a constitutional republic, not a land where religion trumps law. I'm sure that disappoints you, but it's the truth all the same...
Uh, hum, yes, America is a constitutional republic, very good, Chad, you pass the civics course. Nothing else to see here now, move along.
Well, as a Constitutional Republic, we are a nation of laws, not a nation of "Well, we feel that is immoral, and against ourt faith, so we don't have to obey" stuff - We have to work to fix broken laws, not just ignore them and violate them at our leisure.
First of all, Chad, I never claimed it wasn't a constitutional republic. My only claim is that there is a higher law than mans'. Even the founding fathers believed such. In fact, for the first 70 or so years of the republic, courts were cognizant of the natural law. Only since the 20th century as all memory of its existence been erased from judicial mind. Sorry to say, but natural law jurisprudence and thought is not an exclusively Catholic idea. The common law, upon which our nations laws are based, took the natural law into account as well. The constitutional republic that you are crowing about is in fact built upon the natural law or higher law. On whose authority did the founding fathers find the gumption to break the law of their sovereign, the King of England. Natural law. The founding fathers broke the law of England because they believed there was a higher law than mans' law.
Come on back when you have done a little more schooling, Chad.