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Many Voices, One Freedom: United in the 1st Amendment

March 28, 2024

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Bishop Fulton Sheen tweeted, “As Religion fades, so will freedom.” His observation that religious conviction and the moral conduct it promotes is both integral and essential to free society echoes that of founder/framer John Adams who observed in 1798, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” George Washington agreed, saying, “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.” 

Many, even self-described “conservatives” of today, seem to disagree, believing the Leftists’ promotion of Socio-Sexual-Free-For-All can be somehow reconciled with the limited use of governmental force that a free society requires. It cannot.

“I’m socially liberal but fiscally conservative,” say some who wish to avoid the conflict and ridicule that accompany opposition to the Left’s Socio-Sexual-Free-For-All.  

They make a fundamental error in their definition of ‘individual liberty.’ Liberty doesn’t absolve individuals of responsibility for regulating their own drives, passions, and behavior. Self-mastery is essential to claiming a peaceable and productive role in society. A society characterized by consenting interdependent exchange as its defining feature requires that we remain equal in our liberty. It cannot be sustained if burdened with a significant population of antisocial derelicts who consider themselves entitled to trample others’ rights. Those who seek totalitarian control recognize this better than do those who fall for the Free-For-All fake-liberal trap.  

In the diminishing regard for mindfully cultivated virtues of self-mastery (products of religious upbringing more often than of secular), each generation since the 1960s has produced a greater percentage of children who suffer chronic psychological dysfunction, addictions, and the interpersonal and economic dereliction endemic to such conditions. Such people, requiring constant intervention and provision by others, provide the rationale for the consistent expansion of government.  

Power-seekers have always advocated an ever-expanding role of government. They gain, retain, and expand their power by converting human misery into political capital, promising relief, retaliation, provision, etc., in exchange for ever-greater authorizations of power. But the modern Marxism being promoted today is even more “effective” at converting misery into political capital. It not only infantilizes the subjects of its “favor,” it blames all human suffering on “oppression” by those who are thriving. Its zero-sum worldview assumes every success to have been achieved by devious means at the cost of others. (Little wonder the ‘middle class’ quickly collapses in societies largely subscribed to this ideology.) 

“Your economic failing is not an insufficiency of marketable skill, hours, effort, or attitude. Your failure in relationships has nothing to do with your disloyalty, promiscuity, or self-centeredness. None of your sufferings are related to factors within your control. It has all been imposed on you by Oppressors.” 

Self-induced misery, after all, offers scant opportunity for political pandering.

With the decline in religious participation, we’ve seen a rise, too, in a militant ANTI-religious ideology within government schools and other agencies.  

Government-run schools are actively teaching kids that their own feelings and perceptions are of such paramount importance that they trump even physical reality.

“A culture that rejects ‘Nature’s God,’ as we did sixty years ago, will eventually reject the Laws of Nature,” remarked Pastor Ralph Rebandt, candidate for Michigan Governor, recently. We are seeing the truth of this in the epidemic of “transgender-identification” among young people.

Those who succumb to the active recruitment being conducted from age 5 are encouraged to embark on a lifetime of social, biochemical, and surgical opposition to their own bodies. So profound and all-encompassing is this battle that there can be little room left in life for anything else, save the political activism that affirms it.   

Many do escape the tremendous demonization of normality – what is now termed ‘cis-gendered heterosexual’ (labeled by default as “oppressive” because it’s a majority sexual identification). But even for them, the teaching of such profound self-centeredness can be debilitating. It purposely disrupts the development of sound personal character and the empathy required for sharing in the experiences of others.  

Those whose parents, church, and home life provide insufficient counter-instruction can be substantially enfeebled by this ideology. And, frighteningly, that vulnerable group is growing in direct proportion to the decline in families who are active participants in a supportive faith community.  

The foundation of moral conduct is respect for each person (not faction) in the equal standing of his or her life and rights. While the pursuit of statistical parity among competing factions (Marxism’s ‘social justice’) empowers government, MORALITY empowers individuals. 

We can clearly know and even teach this in principle. But the timeless observation of wise leaders from the founding era to the present is proving true. Living in a manner consistent with Ordered Liberty requires the acceptance of Higher Authority, a transcendent Law and Law Giver holding us accountable to moral conduct.

MANY VOICES, ONE FREEDOM: UNITED IN THE 1ST AMENDMENT

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