Ansell, sweetie, I won’t abandon the U.S.Constitution, period. That document gives us the greatest amount of liberty for the largest number of people. You and the left want to narrow those liberties. Marriage and abortion aren’t mentioned in the U.S.Constitution so the power to regulate those are left to the states. And accusing me of being “left” demonstrates how ridiculously destructive you are towards other Conservatives.
You, and “social conservatives”, are making the same mistake the liberals-Democrats-Progressives-communists have promulgated in the past 200 years. Using non-existant ‘powers’ in the U.S.Constitution in an attempt to manipulate human behavior has resulted in terrible laws such as prohibition.
That wasn’t what the framers of the U.S.Constitution intended.
Abortion as “liberty”, gay marriage, as “liberty”, it doesn’t get much more left than that.
You’re wasting time trying to explain it to that one. I think he’s purposeky being obtuse, not to mention making incredible assumptive leaps of reasoning regarding other posters. Anyone who can’t tell the difference3 between a social issue and a legal issue isn’t worth the time, honestly.
You made that up, most of what you post on this thread is made up>
You are clearly supporting federal recognition of gay marriage, abortion, and polygamy, as long as a state somewhere supports it.
The feds have to make decisions on those issues also, that is why congress decided on marriage laws at the federal level for the military in 1780, 1784, 1798, 1802, in other words, the original Congress, they have to decide on abortion law on military bases, they have marriage law regarding immigration and federal employment, etc.
Slavery and the female vote weren't listed in the Constitution, and neither is abortion, at least not yet.