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[the] Government Has Room To Scale Back Individual Rights During Wartime Without Violating The Constitution. The Constitution Just Sets Minimums. Most Of The Rights That You Enjoy Go Way Beyond What The Constitution Requires.

[t]he Enshrinement Of Constitutional Rights Necessarily Takes Certain Policy Choices Off The Table.... Undoubtedly Some Think That The Second Amendment Is Outmoded In A Society Where Our Standing Army Is The Pride Of Our Nation, Where Well-trained Police Forces Provide Personal Security, And Where Gun Violence Is A Serious Problem. That Is Perhaps Debatable, But What Is Not Debatable Is That It Is Not The Role Of This Court To Pronounce The Second Amendment Extinct.

To Be Honest About It, That Is The View Of Christians Taken By Modern Society. Surely Those Who Adhere To All Or Most Of These Traditional Christian Beliefs Are To Be Regarded As Simpleminded.

One Can Be Sophisticated And Believe In God. Reason And Intellect Are Not To Be Laid Aside Where Matters Of Religion Are Concerned.

To Allow The Policy Question Of Same-sex Marriage To Be Considered And Resolved By A Select, Patrician, Highly Unrepresentative Panel Of Nine Is To Violate A Principle Even More Fundamental Than No Taxation Without Representation: No Social Transformation Without Representation.