(Dale McFeatters, SHNS) The Senate will try to amend the Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. 350. (Scripps Howard News Service Budget, 5 June 06.)
Wrong, Mr. McFeatters - the citizens of the country, through their elected legislators, are attempting to amend the Constitution to define the institution of marriage as the union of one man to one woman. Since this seems to be a point of contention the founders did not foresee, apparently it does need to be addressed.
“…taking the Constitution into areas where it was never meant to be, family law and morality.”
Wrong again, sir, in fact you could not be more wrong if you tried – “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." (John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798) Since Mr. Adams was one of our founders and was there during the birth of our nation, I have to lend some credibility to his statement. You see, a certain degree of morality was assumed by the founders.
So, you say this is not a Constitutional matter? I say:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (Preamble, US Constitution)
A more perfect Union cannot be attained by condoning openly immoral and unnatural acts anymore than it can be attained by condoning anarchy.
Domestic Tranquility cannot be achieved by forcing morally sound people to condone the immorality of others, because to not do so would be against the law - which will happen if the several states are allowed to ‘acknowledge’ homosexual marriage.
The general Welfare of the people is never achieved by submitting to fringe or special interest groups – period.
Since three of the six tenets of our Constitution, the vary foundation and premise on which it was formed, are threatened – how can it NOT be a Constitutional matter Mr. McFeatters?
(Contact Dale McFeatters: McFeattersD@SHNS.com )
Thank you for that.