Yeah, like when those damn black people wanted to ride in the front of buses, and drink from white only water fountains, and go to desegregated schools. How dare they challenge the values this country was founded on! Don't they know that the founders considered them only 3/5ths of a person! They totally deserved the firehoses and police dogs being turned on them!
Interestingly enough, that Three-Fifth's issue was resolved by....get this, by a Constitutional AMENDMENT. Ohh....no "living document" bull**** there, just a flat out change to the Constitution.
Fancy that.
The Democrats and their Jim Crow nonsense was condoned by the Courts in the Plessy vs Ferguson decision....a fine example of the Living Document Theory at work.
Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government allowed to provide transportation services, hence no where in the Constitution can be found any basis for the so-called Seperate But Equal transport arrangements enacted in the Southern States after Reconstruction, and since it can't be found in the document, the idea that a "living" Constitution covered the insanity of racial segregation is flat absurd.
However, it was the Living Document Theory that created federal toleration of racial segregation, not any sort of strict constructionism.
And how about those abortion clinics?
How about 'em? The Constitution doesn't grant women the right to murder babies. It's not in there.
Again, the Living Document Theory has created magically appearing formerly non-existent rights, that have led to the destruction of nearly one hundred million babies since Roe v Wade created new unconstituitonal laws.
Truly, those people were shown the love of Jesus when those clinics were bombed and abortion doctors were murdered. How dare they impose their sick practice of abortion, even though abortions were practiced even during the founding father's time!
Yes, how dare the federal government intrude on what everyone recognized was a state and local issue. Try reading the Tenth Amendment sometime.
And the gays! They are the sickest group of all!
I disagree.
There's the socialists and Marxists and other "progressives". To be a useless idiot like that and not even realize their useless idiots, that's true self-debasement there.
To think that sodomy laws would be overturned and the government would no longer have a right knowing what goes on in the bedrooms of consenting adults! This a travesty to the values of this country!
Sodomy isn't a federal issue, except for national security employment aspects such as military personnel and federal employees with access to sensitive security information.
Identify the clause of the Constitution that gives the federal governemnt to interfere in state sodomy laws. I agree that fudge packing among consenting adults isn't something the state and local government should intervene in, just provide the Constitutional justification for making sodomy a federal issue.