Irrelevant? What a curious thing to say! You once again have utterly baffled me with bs and I must try hard not to laugh.
We, nations, individuals and all in between, must have accepted standards that we measure against and check things by.
However, you people in the NWO and open borders club must blur the lines and lower the standards by redefinition into meaninglessness.
Words mean things and a Standard offers two unique features: purity and exclusivity. It is, and always is, what it is. It is what it is and nothing else, no matter what.
For example, when you guy a "gallon" of "whatever", your expectation is that what you've purchased is exactly a gallon of pure "whatever", not more or less and not anything else.
The term or phrase "Natural Born Citizen" defined as someone born in country to parents who are its citizens is one such standard.
Understood in this way, this definition features both purity and exclusivity of citizenship, giving US the basic, pure, exclusive and obvious standard for an American citizen that we can all measure against and check by.
See? If not, it's about lunch here, so here's a lunch time example.
Let's say I were married and my wife told me to go to the store for a gallon of chocolate ice cream.
I come home with a gallon of Neapolitan ice cream and say it's the same thing.
What do you bet I'm sleeping on the couch for a while? Perfect!
Do you honestly believe the issue of defining a standard with integrity is irreverent? Are you kidding me? It's essential!
For what it's worth, I am a Natural Born citizen of the United States of America.
Ted Cruz and Barry obama, on the other hand, are Neapolitan born citizens of the US.
Just so we're clear? You certainly can call things whatever you want to call them, but Neapolitan born is NOT the same Natural born.
You'll think this is even crazier than that, but I truly am trying to be helpful, as there truly is a bigger picture at play here and we're all players in the game.
These small acts of redefining our pure standards into our own image, just like slices in a death by a thousand cuts, are fatal mistakes.
It became insanity when we started to like cutting ourselves.
Do we ever ask our selves who is handing US the knife or are we just too busy cutting?
I will say it again. To conclude that Obama was born in Kenya (as birther fans do), one has to really want to believe it because that conclusion is not compelled by the evidence.
Why might someone want to believe in such an unlikely conclusion? I think that there were some people who believed (or pretended to believe) in the birther theory in order to sell books and DVDs to unwitting victims and in order to raise funds from unwitting victims who believed in the theory for political reasons. I think for a period, there were people who believed in the birther theory for political reasons - they unrealistically believed that the theory might be used to remove Obama from office.
Since Obama will be leaving office soon anyway, it will soon become unnecessary to remove him from office and at that point, it will not be relevant to people who believed in it for political reasons. Thus, the word irrelevant.
I don't dispute that there will be some people who continue to be birthers after Obama is gone much as there remain people who continue to believe that the gold in Fort Knox is secretly concealed in Roosevelt's grave. We haven't come up with good answers for that type of belief.
As to the interpretation of the "natural born citizen" clause, there remains disagreement. I don't think that the courts want to get involved. In fact, I believe that the courts want (per the Constitution) to leave to the electors the job of selecting presidents who have the constitutional qualifications. That's what the electors have been doing for more than two centuries.