Posted on 07/05/2004 2:21:13 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Back then, America was a segregated nation, too.
Libertines and Libertarians hate Christians more than Democrats and see Christian Morality as their worst enemy.
Perhaps we are, but the most Christian thing to do is accept other faiths....
So all the Christian-haters have to do is amend the Constitution to change the country to the way they want it.
Perhaps we are, but the most Christian thing to do is "tolerate" other faiths....
No, of course not. We (secularists, not "Christian-haters") don't need to amend it, we just need the Supreme Court to interpret it differently than in the case you've cited. They've probably done so much by now, it having been 100+ years since that case and whatnot.
And?
America was a nation much more aligned with free-market forces (than it is today) at the time that America was a segregated nation, too. Therefore a freemarket economy is... antiquated and wrong? Is that your argument? sharp logic, there, Einstein.
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams, October 11, 1798
“Have you ever found in history, one single example of a Nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue?... And without virtue, there can be no political liberty….Will you tell me how to prevent riches from becoming the effects of temperance and industry? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?...”
- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom."
"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."
- Patrick Henry
Do you understand what it means to be a Christian?
Republicans who want to restrict gay marriage are doing so the right way, by promoting an amendment to the constitution.
Those on who "interpret" our "living Constitution" to make it mean something it never meant are the same leftists who "interpret" the Second Amendemnt as not applying to individuals. They are engaged in a war against the Constitution and and are enemies of the Republic.
3/5ths clause
Christianity is.
Show me where the words "Christ," "Christian," or "Christianity" appear in our Constitution
(or, by "historical documents," are you including informal correspondence between the framers? Some of the most important framers weren't even Christians, which might be why our Republic has survived for so long)
What's to overrule? The highlighted passages are practically the dictionary definition of "obiter dictum"...
No.
sharp logic, there, Einstein.
Touche, Decartes. </zing!>
This poster was intending to prove that America is a "Christian nation" based on a Supreme Court ruling from 100+ years ago. I merely pointed out that the Supreme Court has changed how it interpreted the Constitution since then (a prime example being segregation, which it originally found to be allowed by the Constitution but later, after a re-interpretation, decided it was not, see Brown v. Board... at least, I think that's what happened)
And when the SCOTUS interpreted the Constitution to pretend that this country was a "Christian Nation," it was wrong to engage in such judicial activism.
Leftists just can't admit that what they believe is rooted not in US history and tradition, but is rather an alien socialist ideology very much at odds with the establishment of this Republic under God, so they have to try to rewrite history.
Notice the quotes from state constitutions come from versions thereof published before the overthrow and elimination of state's rights via the Civil War?
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