What does the 4th of July really mean?

Hello everyone!

I fondly remember spending the 4^th of July with my grandmother when I was very young.  My grandmother would have lots of people over for a cookout outside her screened porch. We would all eat, eat some more, converse (I was playing, of course), eat a lot of dessert…then we would watch the fireworks on the hill, in front of grandmommie’s house.  Life seemed very simple, happy, and free.

Today, I ask myself, “What are we celebrating?”...in light of the Supreme Court’s decision on 
June 26, 2015.

What happened to state’s rights?  Isn’t authority, not given to the Federal Government given to the people and the states? Yes, however, under Article III, Section 2, "Controversies between two or more States" are afforded and can be addressed to the Supreme Court for resolution.  The Supreme Court ruled over the differences occurring between states, Vermont and Virginia. 

But by the same token, on what document, is the Federal Government given authority to define marriage and family?  The institution of marriage between a man and a woman has been a fundamental building block for society of every major religion, every major civilization for over six thousand years! The audacity of the Supreme Court to re-define the institution of marriage is absurd.

Who are we honoring this 4^th of July?  Certainly not the Founding Fathers of our nation, or the God who was with George Washington and his half-frozen tattered army at Valley Forge. Or better yet, the men who embraced the risk of hanging for treason by the Mother country; men of the likes of John Adams, and Patrick Henry who cried, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”  We know nothing of the grit and fire these men and women possessed, and what it means to suffer for freedom. We have obviously taken for granted the last 225 years. We do not care enough to take the time to observe what is happening to our nation, do our due diligence in pursuing our own personal research in regards to our government and how it functions.  If we do not care enough to put the electronic toys away long enough to think about what is happening to our freedom, before long we may not have any freedom to celebrate. 

"A people may prefer a free government; but if from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of it; if by momentary discouragement, or temporary panic or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions - in all these cases they are more or less unfit for liberty."  - -  
John Stuart Mill

Bye for now...

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