For me the problem extends from the people who wrote the Constitution...
Jackson and Adams and Washington and those old folk... They go off about "In god we trust" and "Under God" and stuff like that, and then say that there has to be an absolute separation between church and state...
What? Which are we supposed to beleive? If there is supposed to be a separation between church and state, marraige shouldn't be a federal institution in the first place! The constitution is an old document that has a vast array of merits but allows for squabbling over moral issues like this.
I feel that any additional bills passed in federal courts should start clarifying the basic foundations of this country, not muddying it with more laws that limit freedom. It seems to me that the more amending and bill passing that goes on, the less and less the constitution actually matters. Soon no-one will be able to even see the beginning, our nation will be run by the only people who know how to navigate legal text, the lawyers.
Or not. Maybe I'm just a crazy hippie.
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