Silent No More: How Ron Paul’s Adherence to the Constitution Will Return Government to the People
I recently had a conversation with a good friend on the subject of agendas. Call it the “Moral Majority” or the “Christian Right,” whatever you call it, there is a political force in our nation that hesitates to support Ron Paul because there are several moral questions it would like to see settled at the federal level and Ron Paul won’t go there.
We were discussing the so-called “gay” marriage issue and I said “but what if they lose?” Silence. “Oh, you’re right,” my friend finally responded …. this is making sense now.“ That’s the point the Christian Right seems to be missing. It wants desperately to take the issues of abortion and gay marriage to the federal level for a constitutional amendment, where in fact it might lose.
If there is deciding to be done, why not at the state level? Instead of the proverbial eggs all in one basket, you put them in fifty, and while some of them may go contrary to Faith and Tradition, not all of them will, whereas at the federal level it becomes an all-or-nothing proposition with a resulting lock-step sameness across the land. Plus, with the fifty baskets idea you can simply move to a state that agrees with you if and when it comes to that.
And what’s with these marriage licenses anyway? Oh … they’re to show that one is married. Okay. I go to a church and get married. I have a record of this. Now, when someone asks me if I’m married, I show them the certificate.
Well, suppose I am gay and it is after the fifty battles have been fought and I live in one of the states that have come to recognize my desire to live as man and man or wife and wife (sorry, I don’t really know how to put that). In this case I simply go to the government to get the record I need because it is through the institution of government that this arrangement has been instituted. In other words, isn’t the problem that we have taken marriage out of the hands of one institution (the Church) and put it into the hands of another (the Government)? Why not simply put it back where it was in the beginning and let the people of each state decide on the “gay marriage” issue?
Ditto for abortion. Right now this has law-of-the-land status on the majority opinion of nine. The Christian Right would have it decided on the majority opinion of fifty. Ron Paul would simply uphold the Tenth Amendment which would have it uniquely decided by majorities in each and every state, either by Legislative Body or Referendum.
It seems that our Republic is quite democratic after all. You just have to do what the Constitution says, which is what Ron Paul has been saying for how many years?
