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¡ADM! (¡Ay Dios Mio!)
That court made a terrible decision, but how can you blame that on the Civil War? Clearly, you are paying a steep price for your obsession with the 1860's. The court was dealing with a 21st century issue that has nothing to do with the Civil war. How can you expect to clearly think about real problems that we have today if you begin by assuming that all of our problems must have been caused by the Civil War?
I disagree with the court and I don't think that the Civil War provides the court with any excuse for the mistake that it has made in this case.
Because he is a man with a comprehension level so far above our's he compares it to talking to a herd of goats. See reply #238.
Funny, I started noticing the problems in the present, and tracked them back to their source. It turned out to be the Civil War.
Seriously, I never paid attention to the Civil war until the mid 1990s. I simply never thought of it.
What was bothering me back in those days (apart from that disgusting maggot Bill Clinton being in office because of the Media tampering with the electorate) was Abortion, Homosexuality, Welfare, Judicial Activism, especially as regards religion, Excessive Taxation, Excessive Regulation, and indulgence of Criminal Behavior, and a refusal to protect America's interests abroad.
I used to subscribe to a large array of conservative publications including "National Review", "American Spectator", the Limbaugh Letter, etc.
I started learning how things were connected. For example, the ban on prayer in public schools started more or less with Roosevelt Appointees in 1948, and then went through the Madalyn Murray O'Hair, case in 1963, and continued on to the present day.
I found out from David Barton's book "the Myth of Separation" how much of what the courts were telling us was utter crap, and completely at odds with history. In 1787, many states had official state religions, so there never was any of this "separation" crap at that time.
To make a long story short, the Courts asserted that the Federal prohibition against a recognition of religion must also apply to the states Because of the 14th amendment!
I thought to myself, "surely the 14th amendment was never intended to be used to throw God out of the public places of America."
I contemplated the exact same chain of events for the Supreme Court's "Roe" decision in 1973. Again, the 14th amendment created a "penumbra" of a "right to privacy" which somehow can be legally twisted into a right to commit abortion.
Again I said to myself "Surely the 14th amendment was never intended to be used to allow women to murder their unborn children."
Do you see where I am going with this?
If you look at much that is going on now that is absolutely wrong, and if you trace it's pedigree back to it's origin, you find much of our troubles are originating in the 14th amendment. This Homosexual marriage/gay wedding cake bullsh*t is another one of those legal doctrines that traces directly back to the 14th amendment. All legal issues of "discrimination" trace back to the 14th amendment.
So does "Anchor Babies".
The Civil war turned normal Federalism on it's head. That was the point at which everything changed, and not just for the Southern States. The subsequent consequences of the Civil war brought insanity to the Northern states as well. We are now "Legally" Insane from sea to shinning sea.