Yes, I heard that Avril Lavigne is coming out with a second album. And I thought I was rid of her.
She makes things complicated.
So, Super Tuesday is upon us, and my thoughts again turn to politics. In recent days, I've been wondering about how our country's founders would view what's going on in our country today. I'm usually someone who follows the letter of the law (usually because I want to know exactly how I can apply it to my benefit), so when I read that the Declaration of Independence clearly states that all men are endowed with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it made me wonder why, since this country was created, we've never enforced that.
Since Day 1, this country permitted slavery, making an entire race of people inferior and subject to servitude. Once the servitude part was abolished, the inferiority remained for over 100 years (and in some places, still remains today). Women weren't given the right to vote for almost 150 years and it took a Constitutional amendment to put that in place. And now, gays are falling under that inferiority thing too. If all U.S. citizens are guaranteed the right to pursue happiness, then why can't they marry? Why are we imposing moral law as governmental law, and whose morals are we using to set those laws?
Seems to me like we should rewrite the Declaration to say that all white, majority-denominated men are created equal.