If this country can survive its 'head' allowing slavery and all other forms of 'mischief' over the years, I wonder if it might survive gay marriage. Time will tell how God rates government derangement; there has always been plenty.
The Dangers Of American Liberty
By Fisher Ames (1758 - 1808)
"There is of course a large portion of our citizens who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending.
They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.
They consider her as a nymph, who need not be coy to keep herself pure, but that on the contrary, her chastity will grow robust by frequent scuffles with her seducers.
They say, while a faction is a minority it will remain harmless by being outvoted; and if it should become a majority, all its acts, however profligate or violent, are then legitimate.
For with the democrats the people is a sovereign who can do no wrong, even when he respects and spares no existing right, and whose voice, however obtained or however counterfeited, bears all the sanctity and all the force of a living divinity.
The clamors of party are so loud, and the resistance of national vanity is so stubborn, it will be impossible to convince any but the very wise (and in every state they are the very few), that our democratic liberty is utterly untenable; that we are devoted to the successive struggles of factions, who will rule by turns, the worst of whom will rule last and triumph by the sword. But for the wise this unwelcome task is, perhaps, superfluous: they, possibly, are already convinced."
