I have friends who believe that strict adherence to a strict interpretation of the US Constitution is all that is needed to fix what is wrong with our society.  I resist that position on many accounts.  A visceral scream rises within my psyche at this proposal.  That notion is the analogue of the Biblical fundamentalism within which I was raised.  In my personal experience that guarantee of paradise promised, turned out to be hell.

Allow me to suggest for consideration these inviolate principles enshrined in our constitution entail by logical extension more than appears when we consider them to be quasi sacred.

The right to privacy is the right to adultery, when no one has the right to meddle in my life.

The right to possess private property is the right to steal, to exploit others as long as one follows the rules.

As a free citizen one has the right to bear arms which is the right to efficiently kill.

Freedom of religious belief means that one has the right to worship “false” gods and to sacrifice oneself and others in their service.

Freedom of speech, the right to express one’s opinion is the right to lie.

Philosophically this suggests the reciprocal nature of language, and of meaning.  The ostensibly positive rights established in the Constitution rely upon their very transgression of social norms

Each is brought back to the perennial question. “What do you desire?”  What do I want for myself as a human being, and for the community on which I depend? The answer to that question is never forthcoming from God, the Bible, the Constitution of the United States or any other venerated source. Its not what the holy Bible, Koran, the Church, or Constitution or God wants…….

The query is without a final definite answer, one with which you and I must always wrestle.