[sailaway21]

You guys are wasting your time with the field hockey teacher from Brookline here. he cannot be bothered to pick up the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution and actually read them for himself. If he has, he obviously lacks the cognitive ability to understand them.

He's sorely vexed that a man would give his allegiance to his God over his country. As such, he finds himself diametrically opposed to the Founders of this nation. He'll hem and haw but he really has no answer for the below words from the Declaration. At heart, he's a natural little government bureaucrat, a functionary convinced of the good that government does, incapable of seeing the good his neighbor does absent compulsion. Field hockey is a rough sport; it's entirely possible there was a violent glandular collision between a young female breast and the lighter than air bag of gas atop Craig's neck.

Even money says he cannot explain these words in an manner satisfactory to the inquisitiveness and intellectual rigor of the average eighth grader.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Just in the interest of scientific objectivity I ran those thoughts by an available sixth grader and she had no trouble in explaining to me that they meant that our right's are god-given and that we have them regardless of what country we live in or what the government says. The coup de grace was administered when she informed me that they are unalienable because they predate government, all government. The little dear was perplexed when I told her to stay out of Philadelphia. (g)