Monday, December 31, 2007

Citizenship

I am somewhat confused by where Constitutional Rights start and stop. A person who is being held captive by any force of the United States must pass a legal test before the constitutional rights of imprisonment kick in. We seem to have no problem labeling those who don't pass the test as sub-human and therefore ineligible for basic human rights. At the same time, the same people who support "enthusiastic interrogation methods" and selective suspension of Habius Corpus also seem to wish to amend the Constitution in a very interesting way.
Today any person born in the United States is a citizen, period. Now there is the selective citizenship drive afoot. It has become very convoluted.
Is a person conceived in the United States a citizen?
The Right to Lifers say yes! Except if that conception is between foreign nationals who manage to slip across our borders, conceive a child and then, what? Go back to their own country, bear the child and then present it at the border as a citizen? Stay in this country and then request amnesty so the child can be born and live here?
The Right to Lifers contend that the unborn are citizens. OK, If they are then we will need to establish a conception test. We will also need to form bands of sex police along our borders in order to prevent what; "undocumented" conceptions? Does that possibility beg the creation of conception documentation?
Go ahead - scoff. Hey, you hotshot lawyers out there! Who wants to take the first test case?
Which brings me to what I see as a truly ironic situation.
Pro Choice people, people who feel that abortion should be available to anyone who wishes to terminate an unwanted pregnancy also seem to, as a class, believe in evolution. Pro Lifers, as a class, seem to believe in creation.
How unfortunate!
If only the Pro Lifers could somehow manage to wrap their intellects around the concepts of selective breeding or survival of the fittest or even just successful strategies for propagation.
They would see that if they just shut up and leave the Pro Choicers alone, the Pro Choicers will abort themselves into oblivion. Problem solved. Just like allowing gay marrage doesn't weaken the institution, it strengthens it.
For years we have been forcing gays into heterosexual unions where they continue to propagate more gay people. I mean, if some people were not born gay they would have been all eradicated by our Judao-Christian morality by now. If we let them marry each other they can't propagate, right? They die out.
That is, unless they really are products of our genetic make up and thus part of God's plan that we just haven't figured out - excuse me - had reveled to us yet.
Onward Christian Citizens! Marching as to war. If sinful lust is your enemy, then have your women wear burkas. There is no freedom if there is no choice.
If you live the way that God wants you to then God Bless You.
If you want me to live the way that you think God wants you live, then you live in fear of freedom. In which case, may God comfort you.

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