[blackdog]

One does not love or hate, or emotionally respond to a constitution. It is a framework by which we are to live with certainty as real as up, down, black, white, zero or one. To imply it's an emotional construct is nuts.

We're not Arab mobs clinging to rocks and the Koran while holding dear to the rationale of virginity checks for da ladies.

[Talisker]

One does not love or hate, or emotionally respond to a constitution. To imply it's an emotional construct is nuts.

The American Constitution is not "a" constitution. It's THE Constitution, and I love it. I am emotionally attached to it, and proud of that emotional attachment. Because in the entire known history of the human race, it is the only fundamental legal document to affirm the existence of pre-existing natural rights, and a system of government forever in deference to those natural rights.

I love the American Constitution because, despite any construction flaws, it's the literal incarnation of God's love in legal form - and the only one of its kind on planet Earth. And despite the staggering battering it has taken form the very moment of its conception, it has endured, and it still holds the world away from the abyss, and in doing so saved billions of lives.

Anyone who can't love that is already dead.