I agree with 80 percent or more of their party platform. In question is their embracing individualistic secularism as the answer to our most devastating domestic problems.
In the late 1950's and early 1960's, many individualists who stood for limited government and embraced Judeo/Christian values and truth, often took the title libertarian. I being one. That changed following the Libertarian Party’s birth on December 11, 1971, and their increasingly championing individualistic secularism.
Too many post 1971 libertarians believe in the moral equivalency of an individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’. Knowingly or unknowingly they side with the Politically Correct Enforcers and Christianphobics, those who desire to force Judeo/Christian values out of both the public and private arena.
“As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.”
___ Preamble Libertarian Party 2010 Platform
It is a question of who is sovereign. Who is in charge of our values, our decisions, our actions?
We have three choices:
Numerous Americans now put their faith in government succor for life’s comforts. Doing so, they willingly accept the values, decisions, and actions of the hand that feeds them. The old saying is so true, “Whose bread you eat his song you shall sing.”
The Libertarian Party’s platform and others put their faith in the moral equivalency of each individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’—moral anarchy.
Others put their faith in a sovereign, loving, and caring God who takes a hand in their daily lives. Judeo/Christian values and truths built a free and prosperous America—including, an individual’s right to life, liberty, and property is God given.
“Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.”____ Libertarian Party 2010 Platform
I suppose one lacking Judeo/Christian values can say the same thing about pedophiles, euthanasia, or bestiality—depending on their own ‘conscientious consideration’. Refusing to take a stand on abortion may be good for not antagonizing voters. It does nothing to protect the individual to-be-born’s right to life, liberty, and property.
“We favor the repeal of all laws creating ‘crimes’ without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes.”____ Libertarian Party 2010 Platform
Except in the minds of pseudo-intellectuals seeking attention at university cocktail parties and the secular self indulgent, prostitution, alcohol abuse, and drug addiction are far from victimless.
Sexually transmitted diseases are epidemic. The Libertarian Party’s only idea to cure, control, or stop the STD epidemic is leave it to the individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’. If you think it’s right, go ahead and do it. How is it working for us?
Today, an estimated 10 million or more Americans each year contract a sexually transmitted disease. Futures ruined. Families destroyed. New born babies infected face potential mental and physical afflictions, even death. For others the results are fatal. Thousands are dying from AIDS. During AIDs first thirty years our Nation's health care cost escalated more than 2,600 percent—and costs to the taxpayer continue to mount. The result of the secular individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’ in choices of sexual gratification,
"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie"
___ Rom. 1:24-25
The question, who is sovereign in your life? Who is in charge of determining your values, your desires, your actions?
Without any ideas on how to cure, control, or stop our nation’s drug epidemic, the Libertarian Party’s answer, leave it to the individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’. Legalize it.
A victimless crime? The cost in human misery uncountable. Mothers without husbands must raise their children alone. Children with drug-addicted parents struggle to survive. Thousands of babies addicted to meth, cocaine, or other drugs are born each day, many with lifelong mental and physical disabilities. Cost in human life from shooting-up or being shot-down equals an all-out war. Cost in medical and custodial care for the survivors continues to escalate. During coming decades, yearly costs to taxpayer to care for the drug afflicted will continue to increase.
Legalizing addiction will increase the problem—the demand for drugs. Legalizing drug addiction removes the incentive to stop. All the financial, physical, psychological, and family problems connected with drug addiction not only remain, they will escalate.
New and tougher anti-drug laws have not stopped the distribution of illegal drugs. Education programs have not. Traditional treatment programs have only minimal success in curing hard-core abusers. Anti-drug tactics are necessary and should continue. But drugs are not the problem, why a large number of American's use illegal drugs is.
People with hope believe in the future. They have faith in a God who takes a hand in their daily lives. They know they have the opportunity to live a successful and prosperous life. People with hope have no need nor desire for drugs. Drug addiction is a moral problem. It is a question of who is sovereign over the individual’s life? Who is in charge of values, desires, actions?
“A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.” ___ T.H. Huxley
Only a nation and its people who choose a sovereign loving God to take a hand in their daily lives are truly free. Choose this day.
___ Michael E. Odell
COMMENTS: Your thoughts and comments are welcome. E-mail: odellmike@comcast.net
In the late 1950's and early 1960's, many individualists who stood for limited government and embraced Judeo/Christian values and truth, often took the title libertarian. I being one. That changed following the Libertarian Party’s birth on December 11, 1971, and their increasingly championing individualistic secularism.
Too many post 1971 libertarians believe in the moral equivalency of an individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’. Knowingly or unknowingly they side with the Politically Correct Enforcers and Christianphobics, those who desire to force Judeo/Christian values out of both the public and private arena.
“As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.”
___ Preamble Libertarian Party 2010 Platform
It is a question of who is sovereign. Who is in charge of our values, our decisions, our actions?
We have three choices:
Numerous Americans now put their faith in government succor for life’s comforts. Doing so, they willingly accept the values, decisions, and actions of the hand that feeds them. The old saying is so true, “Whose bread you eat his song you shall sing.”
The Libertarian Party’s platform and others put their faith in the moral equivalency of each individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’—moral anarchy.
Others put their faith in a sovereign, loving, and caring God who takes a hand in their daily lives. Judeo/Christian values and truths built a free and prosperous America—including, an individual’s right to life, liberty, and property is God given.
“Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.”____ Libertarian Party 2010 Platform
I suppose one lacking Judeo/Christian values can say the same thing about pedophiles, euthanasia, or bestiality—depending on their own ‘conscientious consideration’. Refusing to take a stand on abortion may be good for not antagonizing voters. It does nothing to protect the individual to-be-born’s right to life, liberty, and property.
“We favor the repeal of all laws creating ‘crimes’ without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes.”____ Libertarian Party 2010 Platform
Except in the minds of pseudo-intellectuals seeking attention at university cocktail parties and the secular self indulgent, prostitution, alcohol abuse, and drug addiction are far from victimless.
Sexually transmitted diseases are epidemic. The Libertarian Party’s only idea to cure, control, or stop the STD epidemic is leave it to the individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’. If you think it’s right, go ahead and do it. How is it working for us?
Today, an estimated 10 million or more Americans each year contract a sexually transmitted disease. Futures ruined. Families destroyed. New born babies infected face potential mental and physical afflictions, even death. For others the results are fatal. Thousands are dying from AIDS. During AIDs first thirty years our Nation's health care cost escalated more than 2,600 percent—and costs to the taxpayer continue to mount. The result of the secular individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’ in choices of sexual gratification,
"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie"
___ Rom. 1:24-25
The question, who is sovereign in your life? Who is in charge of determining your values, your desires, your actions?
Without any ideas on how to cure, control, or stop our nation’s drug epidemic, the Libertarian Party’s answer, leave it to the individual’s ‘conscientious consideration’. Legalize it.
A victimless crime? The cost in human misery uncountable. Mothers without husbands must raise their children alone. Children with drug-addicted parents struggle to survive. Thousands of babies addicted to meth, cocaine, or other drugs are born each day, many with lifelong mental and physical disabilities. Cost in human life from shooting-up or being shot-down equals an all-out war. Cost in medical and custodial care for the survivors continues to escalate. During coming decades, yearly costs to taxpayer to care for the drug afflicted will continue to increase.
Legalizing addiction will increase the problem—the demand for drugs. Legalizing drug addiction removes the incentive to stop. All the financial, physical, psychological, and family problems connected with drug addiction not only remain, they will escalate.
New and tougher anti-drug laws have not stopped the distribution of illegal drugs. Education programs have not. Traditional treatment programs have only minimal success in curing hard-core abusers. Anti-drug tactics are necessary and should continue. But drugs are not the problem, why a large number of American's use illegal drugs is.
People with hope believe in the future. They have faith in a God who takes a hand in their daily lives. They know they have the opportunity to live a successful and prosperous life. People with hope have no need nor desire for drugs. Drug addiction is a moral problem. It is a question of who is sovereign over the individual’s life? Who is in charge of values, desires, actions?
“A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.” ___ T.H. Huxley
Only a nation and its people who choose a sovereign loving God to take a hand in their daily lives are truly free. Choose this day.
___ Michael E. Odell
COMMENTS: Your thoughts and comments are welcome. E-mail: odellmike@comcast.net
