Reply #6: Welcome to the group!.

[TZ]

One of the thing I think peopole forget when it comes to the constitution is they thought some of these rights were so "self-evident" that they didn't need to be spelled out..But they certainly did with the bill of rights.However what those ninnies on the right seem to not realize is that the founders were'nt omniscient and of course couldn't include everything. I believe the right to not believe in god is implicit in the freedom of relgion right. But that doesn't suit the fundies so they scream its not in the constitiution. Same as bigots who used to say the Declaration of Independance said "all MEN are created equal" and say well that says nothing about women so its OK to discriminate.
IMO, the Constitution is a wonderfully flexible document, but too many people (are you listening Chimpy) don't understand the truths/ideas included in it, the self-evident and the non-self evident