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Do you disagree we need to change people’s hearts?

No. But you don't change anyone's heart by compromising the most important foundational principles of our country.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

I'm often struck by the fact that those who talk the most about how we "must change hearts" do the least to actually do so.

How else can a constitutional amendment be ratified, let alone voted on?

I'm not calling for any constitutional amendment. Our Constitution already states as its ultimate purpose to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity," and explicitly forbids the taking of the life of any innocent person:

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."
"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

You and I have the same goals, you just don’t have a hope in the world of ever achieving what you want.

Then you've abandoned any hope for America, or for the survival of our posterity in liberty.

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson

I feel sorry for you.

I choose to live in reality.

No. You choose to live in an unconstitutional fallacy that you've bought into, but is a lie from beginning to end.

You remain pure and wait for the rapture. You probably shouldn’t involve yourself in these worldly affairs anyway.

That's a load of nonsense. Bears no relationship to reality whatsoever. You just made up.