Freedoms are not Free

Too many people believe that the exercise of rights in conjunction with freewill should have only positive consequences. Several law schools tried to bar military recruiters from their campuses on the grounds of freedom of association and speech. The US Supreme Court did uphold the right of the schools, but also upheld the right of the government to attach strings to the tax sponsered grants that these schools covet. A high school teacher thought he had carte blanche to speak on any and every subject, but the one he was to be teaching. He has found out that while his job may be secure (for the moment) there is bad personal PR to abusing ones position of authority. In other words standing on principle has its consequences, some good and some bad.

Too many people (especially on the left of political center) take liberties with their God-given liberty. They forget that objective morality must be tempered with freedom for liberty to thrive in the fertile soil of human freewill. Too many wish to push the boundaries of divine grace in the exercise of their freewill, ignorant (at best) or willfully prideful (at worst) that there are detriments to their actions.

It is those folks that bring lawsuits because they don't like the way people think, or people who use their position of authority to coerce others to act and think as they demand, that pose the greatest threats to the rights and liberties they claim to cherish.

They tip the scales of liberty towards freedom and allow anarchy to foment. Once the chaos of too much freedom is at its pitch, they bring about their own standards of morality, which robs others (except themselves) of freewill. They claim that others wish to subjugate them to tryanny, when in reality, in there good intentions, they become the tyrants.

When will this end? When God's Kingdom comes.