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| Wednesday, 03 June 2009 15:35 |
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There are six major pillars of society: the individual, the family, communities of religious faith and other institutions of civil society, the business firm, the educational system, and the institutions of law and government. When these pillars are healthy and functioning well together, each respecting the proper sphere of the others, the flourishing of human beings is promoted. Of course, no society is perfect, and mistakes and excesses are part of the human condition. Where they occur, a healthy society contains mechanisms for their correction. Where such mechanisms are themselves destroyed, as in the totalitarian systems of communism and Nazism, the social order descends into tyranny and horror.
We in the United States have been spared such a nightmare, albeit at a great cost in the blood of our soldiers and our national treasure. Now, however, we face challenges that are quite unprecedented, stemming from dangerous and destructive ideologies that have gained prominence in our nation’s elite intellectual circles and in sectors of society highly influenced by elite ideas. Moral beliefs that are fundamental to human dignity and flourishing have come under severe attack. The very definition of what constitutes a human being has been called into question. Abortion, euthanasia, and other forms of death-dealing conduct have been promoted as constitutional and human rights. Now we see the promotion of fetal experimentation, human cloning, and animal-human hybridization. Similarly, the definition of marriage—the most fundamental unit of society—is under intense assault, and with it the historic understanding of sexual morality and virtue that has been the foundation of our civilization. All of this has been accompanied by the growth of central state power which usurps individual responsibility and the rights and responsibilities of individuals, families, religious institutions, and other forms of private association. Lack of a moral compass and restraint in business practices has provided an excuse for the state now to intrude deeply into the economy and to claim the authority to exercise unprecedented control over the affairs of private business firms. The net result is the weakening of all authority structures apart from the state itself. Indeed, such structures—familial, religious, social, and economic—are being placed in a situation of dependency and subservience to the central state and its bureaucracies. There is overwhelming evidence that the lack of respect for the dignity of every human being, the redesign of the family, the undermining of religious freedom and the rights of conscience, the centralization of authority over education, and the massive intrusion of the State into the sphere of businesses, are steps exactly in the wrong direction. Far from promoting human dignity and flourishing, these steps pose a profound and unprecedented threat to these values. We must do all we can to reverse this alarming trend. |
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