When you don’t like the message and the words used in it, discard the ones you don’t like and redefine the message with different words to reflect your ideology. That is what we see happening in our nation now over the debate on morals. No longer are the morals valid that have controlled human behavior and that have withstood the test of time. They are outmoded; they cause angst, hard feelings, create division, and those who insist on the old ways of morality are just intolerant, so says the new order crowd.

The effort to remove God from mention in public continues as fools continue to substitute their wisdom for God’s. The Ten Commandments, the basic underpinning of our legal system is no longer acceptable since it is from God. Those are but two examples of the “dumbing down” of high principles for sake of bothered consciences and political expediency.

The ideals that God has instructed us to live by for a good life are now being replaced by a list of government morals better known as the religion of secular humanism, and a form of government known as socialism. The two go hand in hand when God is removed from the equation. The reason God is removed is that neither can function if God is in the mix. With God gone the ideology and the agendas can move forward and snare a complacent nation.

A politician claims that it is immoral that the richest nation on earth can’t provide health care for its citizens claiming that they have a right to it, never stopping to explain that such a right can’t be found in the Constitution or that it isn’t a duty of government to provide it. Others rant that tax cuts for the rich are immoral because that means the poor can’t get needed services, which is also immoral. It is immoral that homosexuals don’t have the right to marry; never mind that homosexual behavior is sinful and that marriage is historically reserved for opposites, not the same sex. It is immoral that people have to work at more than one job or that keeping the minimum wage low is also immoral. These are enough examples to show that the immoral behaviors listed in the Bible are being replaced by social-economic ideology which doesn’t have any moral requirement for improving behavior as does God.

As morality is defined, the immoral pronouncements take on the aura of rights as noted above about health care. It makes no difference to those who want more government providing more services that there aren’t any of those things written in the Declaration of Independence. But when morality and rights are supplanted by human greed, avarice, and jealousy, it is easy to demand that such desires be satisfied in the names of rights and new definitions of morality.

The idea that someone else should provide what a person doesn’t have is ludicrous. It is even more ludicrous when they began to tell others how they should spend what is left after taxes. And former President Clinton said that tax cuts would be fine if he was sure that those receiving the cuts would spend their money on the right things. That sums up the last part of morality and its new definition. It is immoral for those with more to not provide for those who have less and who spend their earnings as they see fit, but it is moral for the government to seize earnings and refuse tax cuts to earners because they might not spend the money properly.

The redefinition of morality of which politicians speak shows an utter disregard for not only God but for the freedom and liberty they take an oath to defend, which is the proper role of constitutional government as we know it.

© 03-17-2005 DEC