This nation was not conceived as a vehicle for imposing moral strictures on each other, at least not by the Founding Fathers.

To imply that the Constitution is a meet vehicle for this kind of preachery and shallow moralistic dictatorship is to degrade the entire spirit of the greatest experiment in social inventions ever tried --- the notion that people could live in mutual respect of self-determination.

To conceive of such a thing is to announce one's own woeful ignorance of the whole purpose and meaning of the charter documents of the nation.

The Bill of Rights

The Constitution of the United States

The English Bill of Rights after James II, 1689

Madison's Intent and Philosophy regarding the U.S. Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

Other Founding Documents

Bush and his cronies are flagrantly displaying abysmal ignorance of these documents and the principles they established, and they should be laughed out of the capitol for it.

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