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"The DOI Preamble mentions the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not the rights to an early death, slavery to vice, and the pursuit of unneeded suffering."

The Declaration of Independence has no preamble. I think the document you are confusing it with is the Constitution. I can see where you would make that mistake, as you are obviously not very well versed in either work. The Constitution is not a list of our rights, it is an enumeration of the powers of the government; if a power is not included in it, it says explicitly that said power does not exist. That's why a lot of the founders were very hesitant to include a Bill of Rights as they feared it would confuse people into thinking these were their ONLY rights. It seems that fear was well founded.

There are people who now think that if a right (to associate with those you wish, and engage in acts that do not affect anybody else in this case) is not made explicit then the people do not have it. So if some ignorant boob decides that any act is sinful, they think they have the right to force somebody else through the force of a gun to stop said act. They think that if they get enough like-minded boobs together to elect a similarly ignorant boob to public office, that that makes it legitimate. Cries of "Democracy!" and "Majority Rules!" overpower any ideas about rights and the constitution. In the process they shred the guts out of the documents they give lip service to on patriotic holidays like the 4th of July. We don't need foreign invaders to destroy us, we just need enough busybodies who think they know better then we do how to live our lives.