| Comrade Tovya said: I don't give two craps about whether churches get tax exemptions, I'm not "religious" per se... so that's irrelevant. Give them tax breaks, don't give them tax breaks, I don't care... no one dies either way. Smoke, don't smoke, I don't care so long as people don't do it around me, because I find it unhealthy and I think cigarette smoke stinks... as long as they give themself lung cancer and not me, I really could care less. It's none of my business. Interracial marriage? I don't care either way, once again, whether you are white and marry white, or decide to marry black or hispanic instead, I don't care... it affects no one on this earth either than the two people who got married. I have never asked the government to be a "moral referee" as you imply. I only ask the government to do what the constitution requires it to do, and that is to provide for the safety and welfare of all individuals who live within its borders. And children within the womb have zero rights, and that is just outrageous. It also has nothing to do with, "a womans body" like you are saying. If a woman wants to cut off her hand, tattoo "666" on her forehead, mutilate her body, or any other thing in this world, I could care less.. it's her business. But a woman does not have the right to decide whether or not another being live or dies. That has nothing to do with "a womans body". If a woman doesn't want to get pregnant, she should either close her legs, or use the proper protection... that is her right. And for Christ's sake, it's not that damn hard to do! Use a condom or birth control... it's not rocket science! No one is forcing the woman to get pregnant, that's why Trojan make condoms in multiple sizes... just to make sure there is one for every size... or hell, use the pill! There are so many ways to avoid this issue it's not even funny. Not to take the proper precautions is just lazy... just like avoiding your responsibility to your child when you couldn't keep your legs shut.
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So essentially your argument is that the government should do what you think the Constitution requires it to do.
Where does it say in the Constitution that the government has to do what a citizen thinks the Constitution says it has to do? Last time I checked, the Supreme Court has final say on what the Constitution means, not you, not me, not anyone else.
See a lot of people have the misunderstanding that the "Constitution" as we know it today is the slip of paper it once was. That is blatantly untrue. The Constitution as we know it is both the Constitution itself and the thousands upon thousands of cases that have interpreted the Constitution. The judicial system in this country was founded on a common law system, which means that court decisions that interpret a statute or interpret the Constitution can have as much importance or more importance than the original thing that the case interpreted.
Guess what? If we magically pushed a button and all those cases that have interpreted the Constitution disappeared, the Constitution would be almost a meaningless piece of paper.
Have you read every single one of those decisions that interpreted the Constitution? Are you well versed in the in's and out's of constitutional law? Or do you just think because you have cursorily glanced at a few words on a page that you are an expert on the Constitution.
The Founding Fathers grew up in a common law system, and they wrote the Constitution with common law in mind. They knew that what they were writing at that time wouldn't in essence be the same thing from then even if the words on the page never changed (which they actually did because the Constitution had been amended several times since then).
The Constitution isn't just what you see on the piece of paper (and frankly the Founding Fathers knew that would be the case). It is much, much, more complicated than that.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
