[The Urban Sombrero]

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"And this is the verdict (judgment): that God sent His light into the world but the world preferred darkness." We are not condemned for possessing a nature at birth unreconciled, as in this we had no choice. However, well, the verse is clear.

Again, recognizing freedom of conscience and delighting in choices made are separate things. Now, granted, the Founder's were not a monolithic block of solid opinion, and most, if not all, were of a landed gentry sort, yet interpreting the Constitution in the highest reading of pluralism and equality and protection under the law, if it be revisionist (it is not), is a necessary corrective to slavery and Jim Crow and other atrocities carried out whilst the Constitution was the supreme governing document of our nation.