A brazenly bold statement from a representative of a state that as recently as last year threatened to secede from the Union because of what it perceived as America's drifting away from the intentions of our Founding Fathers.
Texas Congressman Lamar Smith: "No one can seriously believe that the constitution's authors intended to create a right to same-sex marriage."
Brilliant! He's right they didn't. The wealthy, all white, land-owning male authors only intended for wealthy, white, land-owning men just like themselves to be treated equal. The author's exact intentions were for black people to be slaves, women to be second-class citizens, and for poor people not to play any part in society at all. Should we go back to that too?
None of that, though, has stopped us as a modern industrialized nation from going directly against the intentions of our Founders has it? Well, yeah it has actually. The result has been over two-hundred years of struggle for the American Dream to be applied to people the Founders never intended. All because conservatives-- cut from the same mold of modern Republicans-- want everyone to adhere to a mythical version of the Constitution that was handwritten by Men of God who created a perfect order of harmony blessed from upon high. Nothing could be further from the truth, however. Frankly, Rep. Smith's statement is possibly the truest he's ever spoken. It's also one of the most ignorant arguments ever used to determine the status of equality.
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When one man was contained and powerless outside his own country, he went after him and brought vengeance along for the ride. This is his story as only history can tell it.
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