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To: bedolido
Great article. I emailed him and complimented him on it. The comments and analysis about our culture and how current trends/events are corrupting the bedrock foundation of our society by corrupting traditional marriage are great.

I personally have a hard time pushing for a constitutional amendment to state the obvious. Otherwise we will end up with a constitution that is 10,000 pages long. The fact that we even need to consider it tells us where our focus as moral people should be...and that is on educating and spreading the word...almost in a revival sense...because that is exactly what is needed. As John Adams said,

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. 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
We are finding that it is in fact "wholly inadequate for the government of any other".
6 posted on 08/19/2003 6:57:03 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head
I do too, but like Orwell said, the first duty is to point out the obvious.

That's where we are at this point. Look at some of what transpired in the Episcopalian debate. You will not believe your eyes.

There is exactly zero verses in the bible condoning homosexual sex. From literally nothing, they have so tortured the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, Leviticus, Paul, and every other reference to the sinfulness of homosexual sex that we now have an openly homosexual bishop.

What is the constitution but an affirmation of truths that we hold to be self-evident? Nearly 7000 years of recorded history, and the US was the first nation to affirm those truths.

I can think of nothing more appropriate under the circumstances than to affirm the obvious, that marriage is the sacred bond between man and wife.

I am as sorry as you to see that it has come to this.
9 posted on 08/19/2003 7:14:34 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Jeff Head
Most truth is in actuality, "self evident" and does not need legislative definition to provide "loopholes". You jump off a tall building, the LAW of gravity will take you to your demise. Same goes with the commandments from the Word of God. They are not there to inhibit our joy. God (as a caring Father) has given us limits for our own protection!
11 posted on 08/19/2003 7:31:29 AM PDT by Knute
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To: Jeff Head; 4ConservativeJustices
I personally have a hard time pushing for a constitutional amendment to state the obvious. Otherwise we will end up with a constitution that is 10,000 pages long.

Agreed! As 4ConservativeJustices proclaims, all the laws we need are the Bill of Rights and the Ten Commandments.

12 posted on 08/19/2003 7:40:06 AM PDT by Ff--150 (I believe, I receive)
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