That was something good, marriage isn't meant to be for a man and man, or woman and woman.
So retaining the values and cultural principles of the founders is only something that will cause the death of America if you believe its a bad thing, but if you think its a good thing then its absolutely fine.
The Founders had the potential to establish that we would be a Christian State...they choose instead to insure that the State could not be ANY type of religious state.
Now, I disagree that the Founders sought to establish a "secular" state as some people state. A secular state is one that, by definition, would require that its activities, attitudes, and laws had no spiritual or religious basis. The fact that the Constitution protects the freedom to practice religion means that any citizen, be they the average voter or a Senator or the President, absolutely is free to allow his beliefs to influence how he feels the state should act. There is nothing in the constitution that states that a Congressman can't vote on a law based on his spiritual belief structure, or even propose a law based on what he believes. What it prohibits however is the passage of laws that would prohibit the free exercise of religion or that establishes a specific religion. Suggesting that there is some kind of requirement that the state acts according to "christian principles" is suggesting the state should establish a state religion. If you PERSONALLY think that's what it should do, and you wish to push for that...that's aboslutely fine. But it is not contrary to what the founders intended to do otherwise...to the contrary, by providing Freedom of Religion rather than establishing a Christian State, the founders were directly allowing people to use whatever belief structure they wished to guide how they felt the country should go.
My stance has been for some time that I believe that we should remove it from the federal government completely. And, barring that, then the government should remove the term "marriage" from the law completely and transition to a civil union system that allows any two people to enter into marriage due to my belief that, based on the constitution...which is what I believe should be the basis and foundation for our laws and what our government can do...there is sexual discrimination with regards to our current marriage laws and as a conservative I can not rightly support maintaining a law that I believe to be unconstitutional.
However, I believe that it's ludicrous to suggest that the establishment of Gay Marriage would somehow lead to destruction of our o****ry. America is a far greater nation with far more resolve than to allow itself to be destroyed over something so amazingly trivial as to whether or not two men can get a tax break.
I do not worry about the "Judeo-Christian" values of our Founders. I worry about the Constitutional Values of our founders. Mandating a "Christian morality system" upon the population through the force of government is not a constitutional value, but one that actually works against it.
