With the privilege of voting comes the responsibility of choosing leaders who will guard our freedoms. As we go to the polls, HSLDA Chairman and General Counsel Michael Farris highlights one principle worth voting for, on today’s Home School Heartbeat.
Michael Farris:
The principle of freedom is at the heart of any good system of government. But what does freedom mean?
A true understanding of freedom believes that our government should interfere in our lives as little as possible. Under this principle of freedom, we have the liberty to live under the constraints of God’s moral law rather than under the regimentation of man’s law.
We realize that every man-made law is the opposite of freedom. That’s not to say every law is bad. Sometimes it’s worth giving up freedom to get a little order. Our government, for example, sets speed limits so that people will drive in an orderly fashion. These types of laws simply allow people to live together in society.
Still, we must all keep in mind that whenever the government enacts a law, it takes away somebody’s freedom. Lawmaking is serious business, and we’re responsible for holding our lawmakers accountable to uphold rather than take away our freedoms. We ought to judge our lawmakers and political candidates not so much on what laws they pass but on what laws they defeat, and even more on what laws they repeal.
I’m Michael Farris.
