Dear America....

@ dru seems insane.
freedom of speeh as long as you don't fringe on the rights of others right? Technically if you protested about say saving the whales, another person could say you were infringing on their rights. However, the save the whales person could say, well you keeping me from saying what I want to is infringing on my rights. Who is right? The Consititution is a contract of a sort of because it out lines our country.

@ butterflywings16
Actually the Constitution hasn't really changed all that much over the past 200 or so years. The government might've changed a lot of things around according to all of these court cases and laws that were introduced since it was originally drafted, but there's no physical mentioning of God, but there is the whole, "freedom of religion" in the constitution. The bottom line is that the Constitution wasn't written with religion as a founding basis alone. It was written with the mind of the U.S. (or America) being a country of opportunity, freedom, and happiness, meaning like if a woman wants to be an inventor like Thomas Edison, then she can or if a black man wants to run for President or Congress, then he should get the chance to do so or if an immigrant wants to start a new life in America, then they can.

@ butterflywings16
It doesn't infringe on anyone's right if you protest about saving the whales. They have the right to anti-protest or not save the whales. That argument is so close to "your gay marriage is violating my religious freedom". If you're on a diet, not everyone else has to eat what you eat.

@ Gabriel's Angel Hina
I agree, I'm just saying that it does have somewhat of a religious background to it.

@ dru seems insane.
True but in our society we always blame anyone but ourselves. our so 'loop holes'

@ butterflywings16
So are you now saying the Constitution doesn't have loopholes, that society is creating them?

@ dru seems insane.
No I'm saying it does by itself and also by society's doing.

@ butterflywings16
Will you please point out the loophole in the first Amendment regarding the separation of church and state?

@ dru seems insane.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It says Congress should not make a law. It doesn't say anything about you must keep them separate in the states. It is by choice. This is a loophole. This always religion in the states that wish to have such.

It says 'shall make no law' not 'should not make no law'. Shall not will means will not.

Please give me an actual loophole that does not involve changing the wording of the Amendment.

@ butterflywings16

@ dru seems insane.
Will not, should not same meaning.
But the Constitution is a document of interpretion

@ butterflywings16
Should not means you shouldn't and will not means you will not. One is an absolute and one is a moral uncertainty. I'm not sure what "same meaning" exists there.

@ dru seems insane.
But since it's in the consititution it is an absolute.

@ butterflywings16
What is an absolute? The exact word which says Congress "shall not" as in cannot, not as in should not?

(from Mirriam-Webster's site: "used in laws, regulations, or directives to express what is mandatory")

It is mandatory that Congress makes no laws respecting an establishment of religion.

@ dru seems insane.
Yes for Congress, not the people. People can make laws.

@ butterflywings16
How does the general public make laws? If I'm not mistaken they have to be voted on and passed by state legislature or federal legislature systems. I can't make a law willy-nilly.

You can make a law and the people vote on it. We actually just learned about it in history class.

@ dru in flight.

@ butterflywings16
But they can't pass/vote an unConstitutional law into effect; the governor/president would veto it or else the law would get sued for being unConstitutional and go to court and yeah...

Dear America,

Stop trying to help every other country when you're going to hell. And, start investing in the education system, the children are fucked up enough.

Dear America, you're a liar. "Liberty for all" and separation of church and state yet gay's can't marry. Check yoself because I'm about to migrate my ass to Canada.

Dear America,
We will never be able to go back after Monsanto. The environment will be permanently changed forever. You're probably giving us all cancer and we are all going to die. But you get rich, so who gives a shit? Just kill fucking EVERYONE.