What An Age To Live In.

I can't believe I lived to see a time when a majority of Catholics in the US (Catholics who describe themselves as, practicing) support gay marriage. I still remember in the 80's when people were having supposedly legitimate discussions about whether AIDS was the wrath of God. And people like Senator Jesse Helms thought funding HIV treatment would encourage promiscuity.

Actually, you know, on the angering God thing. Benjamin Franklin faced a similar criticism when he invented a type of lightning rod in 1752. People said lightning was the work of God, who like the god Zeus, hurled the bolts from his heavenly throne in the sky. Franklin just pointed out, if God created everything, he invented roofs. And by that same logic, maybe we should all stand in the rain and get wet when the weather is bad.

 

But you know (to resurrect this thread) a lot of our rights, like gay marriage, are already found in the Constitution. What people don't understand is that the Constitution as written gives people all the rights that the so-called liberals have claimed existed for years.

For example when the First Amendmend says "congress shall make no law..." What part of "no law" don't people understand? No law abridging freedom of speech or religion. And "no law" respecting an establishment of religion, like the amendment continues. And the 14th Amendment says no state shall deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Again what part of "no law" or "any person within its jurisdiction" don't people understand? Sandra Day O’Connor was an ultra conservative Rehnquist-style judge. But she agreed in 2003 that the right to privacy extended to gay couples, because equal protection would have to include gays (even though she was still a little skeptical about the right to privacy in general).

 

"There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down,
When they do, I'll be right behind you.

So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world."

Tears For Fears (1985).