[genxer]

i am against abortion but you don't amend the constitution ever to take away rights.

[linda_22003]

Hurray! They're still teaching civics SOMEwhere! :)

[genxer]

actually i said that wrong. You should only amend the constitution to expand rights. And you don't deal with screwed up courts by amending the consittution. That's how we got in this mess in the first place.

The worst amendment of the constutituion is the one that said the senate was directly elected by the people and not by the statehouses. Why don't we repeal that one. And it would fix much of the countries ilks.

[George W. Bush]

i am against abortion but you don't amend the constitution ever to take away rights.

So if slavery still existed, you would oppose an amendment to banish it because it would deprive slaveowners of their rights to own slaves (which were recognized in the Constitution as only 3/5 of a man)?

Of course not. Nearly any amendment affects the rights of more than one group. For instance, the president is limited to two terms. And most people agree with that. Otherwise, Reagan would have gone senile in the White House. And Clinton might still be president. But their 'rights' were violated by that amendment, passed to prevent anyone from holding four terms of office like FDR did. Yes, Republicans did that amendment too.

[conservative blonde]

When did homosexuals ever have the right to get married?

[Antoninus]

i am against abortion but you don't amend the constitution ever to take away rights.

An amendment can't take away rights you don't have. I have no right to marry my sister. Bruce has no right to marry his butt-buddy, Steve. This amendment is to prevent the government (ie, the judiciary) from imposing new and novel definitions of the institution of marriage on an unwilling populace.

Get with the program, junior.