New Israel and Pan-America wrote:Farnhamia wrote:We're not talking about homosexuality itself but the right of people who are homosexual to have the benefits and protections under the law that their heterosexual fellow citizens have, including the right to marry the person of their choice. George Washington probably didn't think women should vote or that slavery was necessarily a bad thing. He also thought, I imagine, that having your doctor draw a pint of your blood when you were sick was a good thing. Times change, people and nations evolve in their thoughts and actions. We should draw up our laws for the modern day and not wonder what George Washington would think.
Homosexuality, however, is offensive in both God's sight, George Washington's sight, the sight of most Americans, the sight of most state constitutions, the sight of most state laws, and the sight of most Christians and people of faith in general.
The founding fathers are way smarter and more intelligent than you and I or anyone in this day and age. The fact is this: these men were geniuses. They modeled this nation on Biblical Christian principles. Commissioned after the signing of the Declaration of Independence was the Liberty Bell, which was inscribed with a passage from Leviticus.
I will always listen to the founding fathers over the modern day Internet pontiff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli