re: #840 buzzsawmonkey

I have an immense problem with someone who wants to change the Constitution. I also am enough of a political realist to know that it is highly unlikely that someone who espouses altering the Constitution to coincide with “God’s law” is going to get very far in doing it; the Constitution is extremely difficult to amend.

I am all for it being difficult to amend, and I am utterly opposed to efforts to make the Constitution correspond to someone’s vision of “God’s law” because, as a member of a religious minority, I know damn well that I will get screwed if that happens.

That said, to the extent such people as Huckabee discuss the nature of public morality, I frankly support them—because I think our public morality has gone to pot precisely because people who are terrified at being confronted by any morality whatsoever have made sure that anyone who does raise such issues is marginalized. And you are assisting in this effort.

I’m not sure our morality has gone to pot, i’d say it has changed. For example, consider the racism regarding blacks that occurred and was acceptable by many people in the 1950’s and 60’s. Whether or not racism is a problem today, I don’t know many people who want to see blacks lynched or killed or segregated. Likewise, consider the treatment of women regarding employment and other issues in the 1950’s v. today. Aside from that, I’d say issues like the modernation of society effect morals more than anything else - I can be a lying bastard, steal, all those things, but no matter - I can very easily move to where people don’t no me. Couldn’t do this easily in the old days, thus your morality was crucial to your well-being.