Homosexual Marriage

[dramaturge]

(05-11-2012 01:50 PM)greg Wrote:  

(05-11-2012 01:44 PM)dramaturge Wrote:  I'm pretty sure that sentence doesn't mean what you're using it to imply.

Do tell?

You used it to counteract this:

(05-11-2012 11:44 AM)Persnickety Polecat Wrote:  I don't think anyone is arguing about whether or not it is in the Bible. I think people are arguing over the amount of authority the church has or should have in the government. And the framers of the Constitution seemed to believe it should have none. But apparently, you know better ...

...which would seem that you expect that sentence to prove that the Framers (all hail) did, indeed believe that the church should have authority in the government. Adams, albeit in an out-of-context way, is merely pointing out that the Constitution is not meant to deal with people who have no interest in abiding by a morality. The same could be said for any law, thus the use of a penal system to enforce criminal law. The Constitution has no punitive measures, thus, it requires the adherence of the people to be effective. Or the addition of some form of legal system to back it up at lower levels. There is nothing in that sentence that indicated Adams expected the Church or the Bible to inform government action.