I noted below that I have read
The Soul and the Wire from The Gulag. Now I am back to reading the rest of Part
III of the same, which I had put off to read Part IV. Reading about the women in the work camps has to be one of the
most depressing things I have ever read. The total loss of humanity that these
women experienced may not be the worst atrocity in history, but it is still
most difficult to read.
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My children are reading Animal
Farm together (school) and listening in, I think it surely relates to what is happening today or at least what
may be starting to happen in our own "land of the free" country. Our freedom to speak and even
think about what we believe is surely going the way of the wild buffalo.
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Related in a way is this article
about some comments Ted Cruz made about who should legislate same-sex adoption.
Not particularly to pick on Ted Cruz, but the article addresses the conservative/libertarian notion that only states (as opposed to the Federal government) should legislate moral issues. Here is the essence of the article:
Cruz may take for granted that states have
rights to legislate on every issue. He and his followers might disagree with
such a characterization, but if the legalization of homosexual adoption of
children is not outside the authority of individual states, then one cannot
possibly know what else is. One should seriously question the idea that states
contain within themselves some innate right to weigh-in on every issue.
Questions relating to the Natural Law should be considered outside the scope
and competency of state legislatures, at least in a non-defensive sense. In
other words, states only have the duty to defend the Natural Law, not make
positive laws to destroy it.
For example, most reasonable people would agree
that states should outlaw rape, while at the same time agree that they do not
have the right to legalize murder. States have the duty to use their power to
defend these moral concepts, but not to violate them.
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