[TheRealThing]

The Treaty of Tripoli is in the historic record. The version read contained exactly what I posted.

I am, again, surprised TRT that you would posit Donald Trump as an angel of light, with Barack Obama being his soul of darkness foil, all the while lecturing, ad nauseum, about how know-it-all posting just really gets on your nerves. What rot.

As for essential liberty and freedom of conscience being the reason the majority rendered Roe v. Wade, I did not suggest that and do not believe the Court reasoned that in rooting Roe as a right to privacy matter.

In my view, PE Trump will replace Justice Scalia, and no more unless he wins in 2020, unless death or health issues are cause. I don't believe any retirements by liberal justices are forthcoming.

The George H W Bush just returned before Christmas from training exercises performed during a three week stretch in preparing for major deployment after the first of the year. Do you do any checking of your source material at all? Or didn't that matter at Bob Jones?

A further clarification is needed here. The notions of essential liberty and freedom of conscience, are vaporous nothings from the liberal blather-sphere. And represent therefore, another in a continuing string of your predilection to non sequitur. I made no reference to them whatever.

What I was writing about specifically, was the liberally inspired distortion of the concept of separation of Church and State and how said distortion led to the legalization of two sins, abortion and homosexuality. Where once the likelihood of federal legalization was impossible to conceive, in this day it would seem that fools have rushed in where Angels fear to tread. And contrary to today's academic, the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and open mindedness, not the end. So to get men to agree to formal legalization of things like infanticide, they would have to be separated from the influence of the tenets of Christianity.

Every journey begins with that first step they say. In the field of law then, it is necessary to gain an inroad by which to begin the process of change, especially if the changes in question are not agreeable to the majority. In the case of separation of Church and State, that separation, referred to as a wall, was originally intended to keep government out of the affairs of the Church. Some hot shot lawyer stood that 300 year long understanding on it's head, arguing that said wall was meant to keep the Church out of the affairs of the State. And what was the dispute where the Church invaded so grievously into the affairs of State that the attention of the Supreme Court was required? Why the unthinkable trespass of parolchial school students being offered the privilege of riding half full school buses in Pennsylvania, and being dropped of without deviation from their assigned routes. Some scornful curmudgeon with nothing better to do could not stand kindness being shown to Christians.

And such was the first step in this journey, for with the coming of that misguided distortion, America abdicated the moral authority on which our system of law was founded. We lost the capacity to grasp the basic understanding that there is a fine line between right and wrong, and the surety of God's Word was replaced by endless debate. Men began to pass legislation at some point, that superseded God's law. We redefined marriage, and we legalized infanticide. We talk for example, about things like child abuse and glossing over the failure of clueless parents, we provide them food and education directly from the hand of Uncle Sam. The same hand BTW which last year gave 540 million to planned parenthood, who then used much of that money to provide abortions for more clueless parents.

Therefore are all absolutes things of the past, as is any semblance of the rule of law. We can't legislate anymore because the outcomes in the Congress are directed by debate. Guileful debate, divorced from the source of all true morality, which of course are the clearly set forth tenets of Christianity. Not only can we not legislate, neither can we effectively adjudicate. Identity politics mitigate everything the government tries to do, and everything the courts try to do. Nonetheless, it has been declared that we have "moved the country forward." LOL, such is the motivational speech of the lead lemming.

You like Seinfeld there Sombrero? Where is comes to such mindlessness, "I'm out!"