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USER COMMENTS BY “ J. MENDEZ ” |
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 4/15/07 12:02 PM |
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“ Great Sermon! ”
Mr. Weaver touched on some very important themes here but I would have liked him to engage with the notion that the Civil War (or the War Of Northern Aggression) settled the state's rights issue.
Regrettably, the state's rights position has been forever intertwined with a hollow excuse for justifying slavery and later Jim Crow laws in the South. Also regrettable has been the history of some preachers who actually used the Bible to sanction the institution slavery--an institution that had more to do with economics and lees with any genuine support from the Bible.
This is regrettable because I believe with Mr. Weaver that state's rights is a marvelous mechanism by which to check the coercive power of the state. The Founders were indeed very wise in this matter. However, we need to extricate it from all the excess baggage it has accumulated over the years and I am not sure the Biblical route Mr. Weaver has chosen is the best way.
The Founders spoke about "nature and nature's laws" as a way of buttressing their arguments for liberty. In using this phrase the Founders were appealing to Natural Law which applies equally to all men and women regardless of race or religion.
In a pluralistic society like ours this may be more persuasive and less subject to the old baggage. |
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