Pedro, It doesn't matter what my opinion is. it matters what the founders intent was. I am a Constitutionalist. The Founders made the constitution hard to change for specific reasons. They did not want it to be changed by the fickleness of the majority to the detriment of the minority. They wanted stability built into the document. They wanted checks and balances upon each equal branch of government so that no one branch (congress) no one man(the president) and no one judge (pick one) could misuse the constitution for his/their/her own purposes. They also didn't want a militant minority to be able to harm the stable majority. It really is that simple.
We can play this game of do you believe all day long. It doesn't matter. We have a document that was ratified by Congress to go by. We go by it. When a branch gets out of line, the document is there to tell them they are out of line. Protecting and enforcing the document is proving to be extremely difficult these days.
The leftists around here only want the constitution to reflect their views of morality, and when they agree with a decision, fine. But generally, they would rather the constitution be abolished and replaced by their own ideologies. They're getting there little by little.
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