Thomas Jefferson said:
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
This is one of our founding fathers encouraging progress. New truths have formed and opinions have changed on issues like same-sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, birth control and abortion - would the founders have wanted us to "keep pace with the times" and make laws that reflect our new wisdom, regardless of what the Bible says?
2007-06-24
07:01:52
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