“We need a Gordian knot cutter here or we chase our own tails.”
I agree with you earlier in that the knot cutter is GOD ALMIGHTY!
“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?”—Psalm 2
The Gordian knot cutter looks a lot like grace, mainly because it IS grace...
In layman’s terms, we need to loosen up on the Constitution and start thinking what a God’s eye view would want to do with it, and where our modes of following it have gotten us.
IF POSSIBLE, within the framework of what is at least plausible. Promises should not be easily abandoned; only when we run into some biblical barrier (e.g. do not be unequally yoked) is it a proper thing to do so, though it still can be forgiven. If we can’t agree, give the positive benefit of the doubt where possible under our control. In this case: we advise Cruz of the issues and then wish Cruz well, but if Democrats manage to finagle his disqualification, we have to play with that. SOMETIMES “defeat” for a believer is not so much the believer’s fault as a divine redirection to an area of greater blessing.
But one thing. This gay marriage has got to go; it has made a major hash of things. We can’t clutch the Constitution so tight that it can’t. I’m thinking Bork amendment, frankly. Which would put We The People back at the top of the pecking order at least with only one level of indirection, the Congress in both houses.