This is brilliant. It takes Social Conservatism out of the monopolistic hands of the Christian Right. Or more accurately, out of the hands of those that would use "God's Will", or "God's Word", or "God's Revelation" as arguments for it.
The author claims that Reason is enough; that what believers call "God's Laws", can reasonably and logically be shown to be "Natural Laws", that when followed, contribute to the welfare of human life and culture. He notes that no less a Religious thinker than Pope John Paul II stated that:
"The Ten Commandments," he said, "are not an arbitrary imposition of a tyrannical Lord. They were written in stone; but before that, they were written on the human heart as the universal moral law, valid in every time and place. . . . To keep the Commandments is to be faithful to God, but it is also to be faithful to ourselves, to our true nature and our deepest aspirations."Hard to argue with that...even if you don't believe in God.
Read: Huckabee and Social Conservatives, by Ryan T. Anderson
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Great article! "The Debate" over this needs to be re-framed,as it makes it all too easy to be slanted off into Parodyland from smarmy pseudo-intellectuals.Our civilization is centuries-ahead of the Islamic in this question,as there's VERY little debate over yonder.Why don't so-called Progressives challenge them about their general intolerance and hostility toward individual Rights? Oh yeah,they're cowards!
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