When you talk about the exercising of “rights” are you forgetting that the “unalienable rights” enumerated in that document are not rights afforded by a government instituted amoung men, but they are granted by an authority that is recognized by this government, that is sourced by an authority higher thatn ANY government instituted amoung men...
Virtue is not necessarily a biblical trait a person can master...God simply wants us to be able to tell the difference between what is right, and what is wrong...It can really be that simple...
When government comes in and tries to define such terms, and do so under the most rightious intentions, you still get flaws when government tells the people THIS is what is virtuous and correct, and this is the path the government is taking all of us...etc etc etc...
When this government turned its back on God, God did his best to continue to bless and keep this country on the straight and narrow...
Ask yourselves this question...
“Do you believe this country is still blessed by God???” (Be honest!!!)
“Do you believe we, as a nation, are capable of receiving the grace of God, after so long off the path???”
It may very well take some un-Godly and un-Christianlike action to get us on the correct course, and some people are not yet willing to see that just yet...
I do not believe we are ready...
I am not forgetting the “unalienable rights” - I am denying they exist. I am flat out saying that the Authority higher than governments gave us virtues rather than rights.
Knowledge of virtues is older than the Bible. They were known by the Apostles and Evangelists, who did not know of rights in the Roman Empire beyond what the Empire granted to its citizens.
There is no “just right” or “just wrong”. Rather, God gave us the answers to the question of how to live well until we grew up and learned the reasons why a given thing was right or wrong. This was the overall lesson of St. Paul in Galatians.
This country will be blessed again when the people are once again virtuous.