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Mr. Corley, you couldn’t be more wrong in saying that judicial activism is the only way to make the changes our Constitution might need. The “Constitution that they wrote” certainly does allow for change, but not by the method you advocate.

Article V of the Constitution provides a mechanism for amending the Constitution. This amendment process has been used, to cite one example, to address your concerns about the rights of women, by granting women the right to vote.

The problem with your preferred method (letting Supreme Court Justices who are smarter than everybody else re-write the “living document” as they see fit on any given day) is that it makes our country an oligarcy.

John Adams said that America should be a “nation of laws, and not of men.” You clearly want to do the opposite.

“The Constitution does not allow for the type of all-encompassing change the Left’s good intentions compel them to push for, so the “living, breathing document” myth and a rabidly activist judiciary are foisted upon a misinformed and/or disinterested America. The Bible does not condone the bulk of the Left’s secular-progressive social values, so it is either rejected outright, marginalized, or annexed into the government’s control (see: Europe).”

And

“Conservatives are not perfect; we simply ascribe to better ideas and truer values.”

If our country’s founders were so in-tune with Judeo-Christian theology and values, and the Constitution that they wrote does not allow for change… that is to say, it is not a living, breathing document… and conservatives ascribe to ideas and values more in-tune with the founders and the constitution… then conservatives are inherently static.

Conservatives are basically stuck in 1776, ignoring the obvious growth 234 years of progress and procreating has brought. We cannot attempt to interpret the Constitution through the eyes of the founding fathers and still expect to apply those interpretations to modern America. We must use the Constitution as a living breathing document because it’s not 1776 anymore, and the founding fathers were not infallible.

In 1776 there were no mega multi-national corporations that served as an aristocracy, taking over entire political parties and making elected officials their puppets (see: Republican). If we were to attempt to interpret the Constitution as the founding fathers intended, we would reinstitute slavery, segregation, genocide and sexism into American law and society because those things were obviously okay with them (see: American History 101). When the founding fathers wrote, “All men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,” they did not consider the African-Americans, the Native Americans or women in general to be “men.” So, should we then erase the “all-encompassing change” that progressives have brought and go back to the Bible-condoning values of the founding fathers?

We must apply the Constitution to modern America, otherwise we are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

You have a talent to make difficult subject matter very clear. I hope you have ambitions of publishing beyond the blogosphere!

“Anything and everything we don’t like about what is happening to our country and culture, and in our churches and synagogues, is a direct result not of unforeseen occurrences or unpredictable challenges but unpreparedness and a pervasive inability to reinforce those same weak links in our spiritual, intellectual and moral armor that consistently allow us to be struck where the most damage can be inflicted.”

This might be the quote of my week.

Elaine:… I don’t even know where I’m going.
Peterman: That’s the best way to get someplace you’ve never been.

Unfortunately, we all know where the Left is going. And it rhymes with failure.

-Adam

Appreciate you taking the time to read and comment.

I think the coming “war” is already here and it is ideological in this country, not violent (thank God). Americans in significant numbers are wising up to the ever-increasing control of a federal government and congress that spends and spends recklessly as their popularity declines precipitously. What needs to happen is that the passion and momentum that began in August must carry over to the primaries in 2010. Fiscally responsible conservatives and libertarians need to be nominated and elected to supplant the RINO and the liberal Democrats. We still have power.

Politics, I firmly believe, is downstream of culture and right now the culture has for too long been either apathetic or misinformed. But things are changing. It HAS to start in the home, among families, friends, and neighbors. Every person you know under the age of 30 should be in your cross-hairs in terms of speaking to them about these issues, sharing pertinent articles, and buying them books instead of Wii games. If public schools (and sadly, many private religious schools) will not teach ALL of our History and refuse to even acknowledge the legitimacy (and I believe supremacy) of our conservative-libertarian values, then we have to do it. There’s no way around it: self-governance is not easy. But its worth the effort and worth the fight.

-R.J. Moeller