New amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

Every year, many proposals are offered to the U.S. Congress and Senate in regards to adding or changing the U.S. Constitution. From 2005-2006, the following ideas were proposed:

• To ensure reproductive rights of women
• To force the Congress and President to agree to a balanced budget, with overspending allowed only in the case of a three-fifths vote of Congress
• To ensure that all children who are citizens have a right to a "free and adequate education"
• To specifically permit prayer at school meetings and ceremonies
• To allow non-natural born citizens to become President if they have been a citizen for 20 years
• To specifically allow Congress to regulate the amount of personal funds a candidate to public office can expend in a campaign
• To ensure that apportionment of Representatives be set by counting only citizens
• To make the filibuster in the Senate a part of the Constitution
• To provide for continuity of government in case of a catastrophic event
• The "Every Vote Counts" Amendment - providing for direct election of the President and Vice President, abolishing the Electoral College
• To clarify eminent domain, specifically that no takings can be transferred to a private person except for transportation projects
• Providing a right to work, for equal pay for equal work, the right to organize, and the right to favorable work conditions
• To allow the President to reduce any Congressional appropriation, or to disapprove of same (akin to a line-item veto)

Since 1985, the desire to appeal the 22nd Amendment has been very popular. For those of you who aren't familiar with the 22nd Amendment (like I was), this is what it states: 

1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding theoffice of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendmentto the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Now, I absolutely agree with the relevancy to all of these proposals. The Constitution was written in a different era. We as a country and people have changed and I believe the way we exercise our civil rights needs to change as well. 

There are some politicians who would like to repeal  Roe VS Wade.... absolutely ridiculous. There are some politicians who would like to add an amendment banning the marriage of same sex individuals...... the most obnoxious thing I have ever heard.

Now we were taught growing up that the puritans came to America to escape religious prosecution, except that's not entirely true. They were escaping the religious chains of the Catholic church, branching off to create their own church, in the "city on the hill". However, they were not tolerant of other religious branches and beliefs. As many more religions sprouted, hundreds of years later, did we as a people become more tolerant... somewhat.

Anyway, I still believe in the separation of church and state. The government has no say (or at least this is the way I believe) in what we do with our own personal lives in regards to moral beliefs. Marriage - a religious ceremony. Abortions - a moral yet conscious decision. These are not decisions to be made by the government for its people. AT ALL.