Newsflash: You CAN Legislate Morality

Posted by Larry Miller on August 21, 2009 under Why | Be the First to Comment

Pesident Barack Hussein Obama announced to the world that providing health care for all is a moral issue. One must wonder how his supporters will take this news after years, decades even, of telling the world you can’t legislate morality. Every time issues like homosexual marriage and abortion are discussed, the progressives, in harmonious chorus tell us, “You can’t legislate morality!” Now the chosen one has pronounced that yes, indeed, we can.

Within the presidents moral unive, the provision of health care is a right… even if it means using the efforts and education of some who may not be willing to contribute them. So health care is a right, even if it involves the involuntary servitude of some who provide it. I wonder what Mr. Lincoln, who the president says he admires so, would have to say about that.

It is also interesting how the justification for government controlled health care has evolved from concern for forty plus million uninsured… which included many who should not even be in this country, to an overhaul of the entire health care delivery system to a moral obligation, as the extreme progressive wing of the Democrat Party searches for a message that the common folk will buy.

He has now enlisted the aid of many pastors of some of the more “liberal” churches. Churches that would be more accepting of the liberation theology preached by Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Somehow this is acceptable, where negativity toward the plan on the part of people like James Dobson, Pat Robertson and your local Southern Baptist preacher is an improper insertion of religion into the affairs of the state.

From this we can see a pattern emerging. Morality can be legislated, but it depends on whose morality it is. If it is the traditional moral view held by the majority of the American people, then it is too restrictive on those who do not share their beliefs and must be stifled. If, on the other hand, it is the do it yourself progressive approach where all moral values are equivalent, then as good open minded people, we must accept it. The President has declared health care a moral value, therefore it must be so and who are we mere peasants to argue?

Likewise the evil of the church having input into the political process must be stopped… unless, of course, the church can help lock the governmental chains around the people. This has been plain for years and I don’t think I’m telling anyone any thing new.

The point of all this is not just to bemoan the unfairness of life and the Democrats (along with some “moderate” Republicans). The point is that the statists are fond of telling those with religious and moral grounding that it has no place in the public sphere. From their example, we know they have some sort of moral code, shifting though it may be.

Our response then needs to include pointing out that so much of what government does is a reflection of some moral viewpoint. We have concluded as a society that it is not good to steal from each other. We have concluded as a society that we should not be killing each other. There are some who would back off from this as an absolute if the person is still in the womb and in the near future, possibly if they have had a good life and are now a nuisance to keep around, or if they are some child with a major disability who will need “excessive” care throughout his or her life. These people need to understand that they are a drag on society and hurting those around them by being ‘useless eaters’. These are all moral value judgments.

We have been stifled by moral equivalency teaching and distortions of the first amendment that many have accepted. We are told that in a pluralistic society we have to accept any kind of nonsense, even though it is destructive to our children and the society ourselves. Few speak up any more… although the tea party movement has helped some find their voices. We are citizens too and need to speak up about OUR morality as well… one that values individuals and their lives over the “common good”. Some form of morality will become the standard for our country. Whose morality will it be: the destructive feel good morality of the left or the value set held by a majority of the people that has been handed down from our founding father to us here today?