The Sacred Rule of Law

Do we have any respect for rules anymore? What is law or order or integrity to our society? I fear when faced with the answers to these questions. As the product of the parents who grew up in a whatever-goes era, my fellow Generation Y has been instilled with a very diluted sense of these vital ingredients to a healthy civilization.

In a nation where most children grow up without a stay-at-home mom, and where the parents don't really parent their children, how could there be any order in the next line on the pedigree chart? How many parents have lowered their standard of morality to the point of helplessly discussing forms of safe sexual intercourse instead of abstinence? Sometimes I think the very first word most of my generation learned was "NO!" and--in the fear of getting slapped with the flabby arm of P.C.--their parents didn't discipline their children.

Will it get better? I think that conclusion is completely contingent upon us, the rising generation. If we don't teach our children truth and have a sense of order and law in our homes, the failure in the failure/success ledger will lean overwhelmingly left in not too many years.

Abraham Lincoln vehemently warned against the ills of mobocracy, the disregard of the rule of law. An immanent fall of a civilization follows the desecration of the rule of law by it's populace. For proof of this process I turn you to the Bible and all of its examples, to Rome, to France, to Germany and a myriad of other examples.

We must sustain the rule of law and infuse this unshakable belief to future generations. I have an optimistic outlook on the good faith of my peers to carry out this vital effort.