Originally Posted by waitingtables

Simply because the framers in the 18th century were white men of the Christian faith, does not mean that those are the only concepts accepted by a people in the 21st century, or that we must continue to believe exactly as they did. In this century, women and minorities are supposedly equal, and people are allowed to practice whatever religion they believe in freely. That does not mean that we should only accept what faith the founders held in common at the time this country was established. Rule is rule, and those men ruled over the rest of society, and while espousing the equality of all, subjugated and repressed an entire gender, and at least three races. Clearly their logic and reasoning had not reached the level that we have today, but they did provide us with ability to gain the freedoms we have now, and that was a very good thing.