2007-10-10 13:30:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Unfortunately it looks like it. Otherwise "all" of us would be created equal and all of us wouldn't have had to have fought (and be fighting) so bloody hard to get equal rights. If the Conservatives would like to despute me, please tell me why blacks had to wait until after the civil war and then after the Jim Crow laws ended, women until after 1921 to vote? And now why us Happy Folk have to again Wait for our own civil rights as Americans which we should have already. I was born here, I weas raised here and I can't get insurance with my monogamous spouse of 27 years. Why not? I'm not hurting any one, God and I are happy with each other -- why can't you be happy for me?
2007-10-10 14:37:07 · answer #1 · answered by Mama Otter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely we do, just like you pick and choose from your ultimate authority, whatever that may be. If you think the Constitution and the Bible are not authoritative, why should picking and choosing bother you? If you think they are authoritative, then you agree on that point with conservative Christians. Life isn't perfect, and no two people are going to get exactly the same thing out of a writing, even when they respect its authority. The problem is, everyone can be shown to be somewhat selective in the texts they choose to make their points. I think the conversation goes better when people admit that up front and show themselves willing to respect those parts of the sacred text they understand less well or are less comfortable with.
As for the Constitution, I recently graduated from an accredited law school on the East Coast, and I can tell you the conservatives have a better track record for trying to grasp the whole of the Constitution as an authoritative document. It is those judges and other legal professionals of the more liberal persuasion who more frequently come to the text with a preemptive decision that they will force the text to say whatever they want it to say, because to them the text is not authority. To them, the text is nothing but a propaganda tool to convince those who do respect it (typically conservatives) that they have misunderstood it all along and here's the "true meaning." Same with how people use the Bible. If you think it is from God, you respect all of it. But you may only know a fraction of it. So you have to think before you speak, and not many are very good at that these days. Such rash speaking may give the impression of an unduly selective use of the text, but in fairness you have to make allowances for human imperfections, or there will never be an end to finding fault. Like Red Green says, we're all in this together.
2007-10-10 14:35:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some American Christians who imagine the separation of church and state isn't contained in the structure. at the same time as the word itself isn’t contained in the structure, there's a sparkling indication that it truly is what the founding fathers meant. Now, considering Christians do not casually %. and choose which parts of their bible are literal and metaphorical; and considering they view the structure interior a similar mild as their bible, they take care of the structure like they take care of their bible, it quite is believing all of it and by no skill believing stuff that isn’t in it.
2016-10-09 00:02:36 · answer #3 · answered by smyers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Will of course the conservatives are morons that have know idea how to run a democracy they need to relies that Christianity is not the only religion in this country and need to stop it now before they destroy all of us and as for the bible none of them don't read it and what they quote from it all of us know.
2007-10-10 13:41:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't "pick and choose" from the Bible. I take it all in context, like you should.
As for the Constitution, you need to be more clear about what parts of the Constitution.
2007-10-10 13:37:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe so. It's the same effort that these folks use to try revise our constitutional guarantees in order to continue to practice racism, prejudice, and color superiority behaviors in their effort to keep, what they believe, (that the bible tells them so), is that they are the chosen color. Poor fools,
2007-10-10 13:41:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pick and choose, quote mine, and practice numerous forms of deception.
2007-10-10 13:36:30 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Pick and choose what exactly?
2007-10-10 13:40:30 · answer #8 · answered by Emerald Book Reviews 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The votes say so.
The truth
2007-10-10 13:46:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, as they know this country was founded on separation of church and state and they would like to institute a theocracy.
2007-10-10 13:34:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 3⤋