At 07:28 AM 3/6/2003 -0500 Jon Gabriel wrote:
>600,000+ US homeless (with 35% of them being children)
>800,000+ US AIDS sufferers
>33 million living below the poverty threshold
>
>...and this is what Congress is worried about?
My first answer is, "no." Congress has never debated the above amendment.
Thus, your statement would be more accurately described as "...this is
what Senator Landrieu is worried about?" (Never minding that Sen.
Landrieu has a political interest as a Democrat in demonstrating her
conservative credentials to the voters of Louisiana.)
My second answer is "yes." Under the Constitution, Congress has no
jurisdiction over homelessness, AIDS sufferers, or poverty. Thus, by the
law of the land, Congress should NOT be worried about any of those things.
More importantly, however, how incredibly shallow of you to argue that the
very nature of our Republic is too unimportant for consideration by
Congress. The poor will always be with us. The sick will always be
with us. If Congress devoted every hour of every day to these problems,
neither sickness nor poverty would disappear.
To argue, however, that the existence of these problems should preclude the
body politic from debating the nature of our republic, and the proper role
of religion in pulic life is.... welll..... quite simply, it is one of the
most pathetic things I have ever read on this List.
Perhaps the Founding Fathers should have gone home from Philadelphia to
worry about poverty..... the fact that they wasted time on a silly thing
like the First Amendment is just ridiculous.
JDG - Ridiculous, Maru
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