Some of our brothers and sisters believe that the law is up for debate if it is not explicitly written in the U.S. Constitution.
It's even up to debate whether it applies to you and will you obey it.
This is why there is a job ahead of us all.
There is a heavy lift.
The Constitution has to be amended.
What does amended mean?
It means that our society had grown more complex than when the Constitution was originally written.
In 1787 the Constitution was written by and for white Protestant male land owners.
Period.
However, in their wisdom, the founders put in a contractual clause.
This clause said that as the American Society grows, it will be recognized that this document will be inadequate for the needs of future citizens.
The Constitution can have its prose re-written, added to, and struck if a majority of States see the need.
Many of our conservative citizens believe that the Constitution is the same as their Christian Bible.
It is not.
Understand it is a civil document stating the rights and protections of its citizens and how they are to be governed by their elected officials.
It is not a religion.
It is not.
Consequently, the irony is that too many of our conservative brothers and sisters believe that if it ain't written in the Constitution, that right doesn't exist.
They are like the character George Costanza on Seinfeld.
When his boss fires him for having sex with his secretary, George laments, "If I had known, if it had been written down, I would never have done it."
This is the Conservative mindset; you have to have the law explicitly written down in one place and in one place only the Constitution.
Laws created by local governments, States, and at the Federal level are all up for debate.
Again the debate being will I obey that law.
Suppose there is no sentence in the Constitution saying there is a right to privacy between a woman and her doctor.
In that case, that right doesn't exist in their belief.
No amount of legislation will convince them.
No amount of protest.
It must be explicitly written in the sacred document ordained by Jesus Christ.
Yes, Conservatives believe that the Constitution was dictated by Jesus Christ to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Constitution…
Yes...
Jefferson "did not write" the Constitution; he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
People with a belief have no room for facts.
Also, Jefferson was not a Christian; he was a Diest.
A Diest is a person who believes in logic over mythology.
Our heavy lift, if we can get the resolve together to do so, is to convince a people who believe in a mythology over reason.
It is not going to be easy.
Nothing good ever is.
Some people have to be dragged into the light for their own good.
I can tell you from personal experience that this is true.
Just like a Lifeguard…
We who understand and believe in the greater good, for justice for all, are being called to come to the rescue of our brothers and sisters.
Our brothers and sisters are drowning under the weight of myth.
A myth that keeps them spiritually oppressed.
A myth that doesn't recognize their economic and social sacrifice.
A myth that forces them into servitude that cares nothing for their welfare.
A myth that keeps the power in the hands of the few, not the many.
This is the good fight.
This is the good work.
This is why you and I are here and now in this place.
Peace.
DFrey aka Toby
