[TheRealThing]

^ You guys think about gay sex more that gay people think about gay sex.

Another baseless charge. The SCOTUS is making world news because of the possibility they could make a ruling that would forever change face of America to something very similar to WC23's signature. You claim to be a staunch supporter of gay rights and I have to admit you rarely fail to rise in defense of their agenda.

I say it is a sad day when in light of the enormity of the problems that presently beset this nation, conservatives are forced instead, to waste their time to defend against America "fundamentally transforming" herself from the land of the free, into the land of the fruits. I mean, I know we have those 'fruited plains' but, who knew? Of course according to you that's all a gigantic misinterpretation. Thankfully efforts to disenfranchise the founding fathers of the correct meaning of the word Creator, in the founding documents has been only partially successful. Still in all, folks at the turn of the turn of the 19th century must have been equally confused. It's a shame that folks like you weren't around to straighten out Katharine Lee Bates when she wrote "America the Beautiful" in 1895. It serves as a great basis for comparison as to how far off the path America has drifted.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

I mean, it's one thing for a poem/song writer to get it wrong but, how would one explain all those legislative efforts efforts by those in Congress over the last century to adopt this song as our national anthem?