One of the signs of the deterioration of this formerly constitutional republic is the mob-rule replacement of prior rights — presumption of innocence, due process, right to liberty and property, right to parent — with holy moral law.
Texas is stone cold guilty.
In fact, Texas policy concerning age of consent and “underage” pregnancy — a total conflict of logic, what with all of Texas’s urban centers experiencing hundreds and thousands of incidences of unprosecuted teen pregnancies — I’m told was itself enacted specifically to oppress religious sects.
Ergo, Texas has willingly and consciously replaced prior personal right with the rule of state moral/political law, and like all states and the federal State, has done so by overruling formerly sacred constitutional rights with the law-by-accord, majority, special interest, or what have you.
How many of you lambasting these people are deeply familiar with the process of law being made?
Of course the cries immediately go up of there being supreme courts to see to the constitutionality of law. Except that with millions of laws on the books across 50 individual states, this is an obvious fallacy of contemporary legal principle and procedure.
Oh, and the other sign of a deterioration of a constitutional republic of personal rights and limits on the State? The very moralizing that goes on, at least as often by moral “conservatives” as by typical big-government secular liberals, to preconvict fellow citizens for no proved crime other than violating conventional wisdom and political correctness, even assuming eventual legal convictions might be constitutional in their justice and procedure.
Considering the trainwreck of juvenile dysfunction churned out daily by the State’s educational system, operating as a great, amoral force hostile to the private sector’s rights, the gross inconsistency that precondemns this church group should give those condemning it pause. Naturally, it will not.
We should at least accord one right, that being the right to a presumption of innocence. And that’s even before we start in on the very real subjective argument that the state just committed gross and willful child abuse here. We’ll pre-convict this church group; why won’t we pre-convict Texas CPS?
As far as I am concerned, Texas CPS must be prosecuted for gross and willful violations of guaranteed personal freedoms and the Texas legislature must be made to strike down laws made to impair said rights. Given the presumption of those certain, enumerated, constitutional rights, that notion is as least as morally and justly sound as hauling hundreds of unconvicted souls off to be ruined in the slave camps of a foster care system run by the same State.
