Why? Because the founding fathers didn't have to deal specifically with the gays when they drafted the constitution? Really, all they had to deal with were issues like taxation, religious persecution, and individual rights...oh wait, there's that individual rights thing again. I'm pretty sure that's what caused the Civil War actually. But I'm no historian.
Well, let's be fair - the Constitution could not possibly include everything upon which the Federal Government would ever have to weigh an opinion, including things nobody would even think of a century or two after it had been written.
However, a big however, it is in my humble opinion that which has been written into the Constitution, is not "up for interpretation", or vague so as to be future proof. Future-proofing the Constitution is what Amendments are for, this was fairly clear when the whole Constitution and Amendment system was incorporated into the government.
With that in mind, I wholly stick to that concept when looking at what is currently in the Constitution, including Amendments. Let's cite the First Amendment as an example: yadda yadda yadda, it can
easily be summed up as free speech. But no where is it ever mentioned that free speech includes, well, bodily actions and/or written word. With a stretch of the freedom of interpretation, one might argue all of that can be referred to as "speech". I don't dare put words into the Constitution, where the words that
are there are clear and legible.
I only state those, because while I do agree written word is Freedom of Speech, the First Amendment is thoroughly abused on a daily basis it seems, always coming up in court cases around the country, determining if such and such falls under Free Speech.
Fuck, I say... stop twisting the words of the Constitution - if you want the Constitution to say something, get all of the damn Government on board and try to ratify an Amendment.
Government has gotten excessively wordy, yet the Constitution is actually very easy to read, and very easy to understand. There is no reading between the lines, nor was that ever intended. Of course, I
could be wrong, but it isn't fitting of what the writers stood for - they didn't want the government abusing the government. Yet, Amendment X gets trampled over daily, and we citizens never get to vote on it. We don't have to, however, we only need to be mindful of what the dumbfucks are talking about in the Assemblies, at all levels of government. It's very easy to do, it's all right at our fingertips online, quite easy to follow all of the various proposals and bills, including who voted what... but the population is lazy, and then fucking cries foul. Vote the fuckers out if they voted against something you care about.
That's what I'm doing this term - all fresh faces, or at the least, whoever has voted "wrong" the least number of times.