Fictions

Where, oh where, is Spider Jerusalem when you need him?
Takes one fiction to cure another.

Edited to provide correct link to this year's State of the Union. I wondered if I'd gotten an edited version or something.

Addendum

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

Okay. So this new thing about how they want to create an amendment legally defining marriage and in effect blocking homosexual couples from marriage. (Rush has a good discussion on her journal).

Can I just point out that that would violate at least two out of the three for many people, and even the first, depending on how one defines "Life?"

I know, I know. The Declaration is not the Constitution, isn't the Bill of Rights. My opinons based on the Declaration aren't lawfully diddlysquat anything.

But it's sure emotionally, and intellectually, and--dare I say it--spiritually something.

We aren't guaranteed happiness by the Declaration. We aren't even guaranteed happiness by God. But we shouldn't be stopped from persuing it. That's all.