I despise the fact that HATE is being legislated and legitimized. I am not a very political person, but I try to be well informed. I thought that our system of government was supposed to protect the rights of individuals not crush them. Also, I was under the impression that our laws and law-makers were supposed to buffer the "popular" opinion from impacting the rights of minorities. Maybe I am being naive. This amendment against gay marriage has much further reaching consequences. What if, because Christians are a majority, they vote to not recognize any other religion as a true religion? Are we going to change that in the consitution too? This is a slippery slope!
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Originally Posted by Cadwiz
The last time I checked, the President couldn't just grab the Constitution, run to the oval office and make a few changes before anyone noticed.
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Well, watch and learn. Or watch and be appalled. No, I am not suggesting that the current president is going to pen new parts of the Constitution, but he has taken absolutely immense steps to make sure that if he did do something like that, you and I would never know about. No other administration, including Nixon, has been so obsessed with presidential secrecy.
This is not an issue that gets talked about much, but it should be a major concern for every American regardless of whether they are conservative or liberal. Our system of government is suppose to be relatively transparent to the governed, issues of national security aside. The current administration is anything but transparent when it comes to policy. If you are more interested in the current politics of secrecy and what impact it could have on your freedoms, I highly recommend the book
Worse than Watergate by John W. Dean, the cheif counsel in the Nixon administration.