Do you believe the Bill of Rights is outdated and should be either dropped in its entirety or at least rewritten?

If you ask your goddaughter, or any of the "progressives" what they will replace the Bill of Rights with, what do you think their answer will be? In general, I believe they have no idea. They are just following the crowd in a lemming-like attempt to fit in. These people are the first to cry out that their rights are being violated if they don't get their way, but what rights are they talking about? Do they even know what the Rights enshrined in the Bill or Rights are? Your question about the First Amendment is a great example. Do you really think "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" discriminates against anyone? I have fought tyrants in other countries whose people have not Bill of Rights to protect them from government my executive fiat. I have seen the result of that kind of government. I, like you, have sworn an oath, before God, to defend our Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. If there are those in America who want to submit their lives to the whims of a tyrant, or worse yet to the whims of "the majority", then I suggest they leave and find a country more to their liking.

The bill of rights was written as protections for the people agains government. The very fact that this is a heated debate shows they are necessary. I agree with them all, I don't like the inturpetations of some. But they should never be altered, only subject to "current interpretation."

Our men and women have fought and died to protect the freedoms that we have! The Bill of Rights were written the way they are for good reason. This is the way I see it, if you don't like the principals that our great country was founded on then you can leave! I enjoy the rights and freedoms we have and I would gladly fight for them. The Bill of Rights will NEVER, EVER, be outdated!!!!

Without the Bill of Rights, ALL of them, we are no longer the United States of America. We would become the Divided States of America. If we were to cross out the 2nd Amendment what stops the next party in power who doe snot like some of the others from removing those rights?

This is the saddest time in my life for this great nation. I would have never believed we would be where we are today.

Master chief, I don't believe it need to be changed at all. Criminals will get their hands on guns regardless of any law prohibiting them; also people in my generation don't seem to understand that removal of the right to arms help to prevent people like hitler from taking over the free people.

Anyone that has any kind of issue with the Constitution needs to move out of the country PERIOD!!!

As a descendent of an individual who fought in the American Revolution and a student of history I say leave it alone. If anything we need those rights even more today than when they were first written. Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they wrote them and from what I'm seeing it appears as if we drop the Bill of Rights the Constitution won't be far behind then we will have truly lost the American Revolution once and for all.

What I have come to understand is that the Bill of Rights was written as a form of protection, from the federal, state, and local governments, for our inalienable rights as human beings. These are our natural rights as people, not something we are granted by any government. To do away with any or all of it would be putting citizens in a powerless position in regards to our government.

Doing away with the 1st amendment is out of the question. It is also not discriminatory towards agnostics nor atheists:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

I read this as meaning people have the right to practice their religion if they chose to follow one, speak and write freely, and assemble peacefully to make changes to our government.

As for the 2nd amendment, I do not feel that I am qualified to answer accurately. However, I believe it means that citizens have the inherent right to defend themselves by maintaining weapons (within reason of course):

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Some have interpreted this to mean that only those who form a militia should be allowed to keep and bear arms. Others maintain that it means all citizens have the same right. I personally feel more secure in an environment where open and/or conceal carry of personal weapons are authorized as it appears to be a deterrent to those intending to cause harm to others.

I think another option in the voting should be periodic review for relevance. I think this is a pretty black and white question to a very grey issue.

Bill of Rights was created to prevent the Federal government from illegal intrusion into the lives of its citizens. Without serious study of History, so common in our society, it is not surprising that the unschooled are following the line of thinking of the despicable levelers that seek to destroy this country.