I'm not channeling my inner Lawrence Welk, though I do appreciate the champagne bubbles. The U. S. Constitution is a funny thing. Much like the Bible, it can be read to support an amazing variety of positions in the modern United States that the landed gentry white guys who wrote it might never have envisioned.
But make no mistake, they had a pretty good idea of what they were doing when they approved the Bill of Rights to lead off the document.
The First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
And perhaps surprising a few of my single-issue ammosexual acquaintances, the Second Amendment: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The former establishes, among other things, our freedom of the press, while the latter is the foundation for our armed forces. The drunken jackal who leads the Department of War and the convicted felon whose boots he licks should read our founding documents and not just the Heritage Foundation's condensed version.
-bill kenny
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