Thank you Dr. Hurd for writing this article. This is precisely the problem and error I see conservatives making all the time, which just goes to prove theyre more interested in perpetuating their own brand of religious statism in place of the Lefts secular statism. And I hear conservative talk-show hosts making this same error all the time as well. Until you make individual rights (freedom of the individual) paramount, and stop promoting some sort of collectivism as a substitute, no amount of up-coming elections are going to save this country: So whose rights are to prevail? The rights of the socially liberal parents to teach their children one way? Or the rights of the religiously conservative parents to teach their children another way? There is no solution. Somebody has to be sacrificed. If it’s the Obama Administration in Washington setting the policy, it will be happy to sacrifice the religiously conservative parents to the socially liberal ones. If it’s the state legislature of Tennessee setting the policy, then the socially liberal or moderate parents will be sacrificed. The reason for this conundrum? People have lost sight of the only basic individual right that matters: To be free from force. The entire public school system, by definition, is based on coercion. People are forced to pay for these schools whether they want them, or not. The policies of the schools are set not by an owner or board who responds to the self-paying students and parents; the policies are set by the government — at the local level, or even nationally. Claiming that you have “religious freedom” means that your “right” to exercise tenets of your religion comes above the rights of the individual. If this were true, then there’s nothing wrong with the Islamic regime of Iran. People are simply exercising their basic right to express their religion, which includes things such as enslaving women, hanging gay people, and the like.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:46:37 +0000
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