This is a good comment on victimhood and preferred groups. The basis of Christian Judaic law had always been the primacy of the individual standing before God and the government with respect to rights and responsibilities. This was upset to a large degree by the civil rights laws of the 60s in the US. They established group rights over the rights of individuals and led to the tribalization of groups, pitting one against another. The civils rights laws could have accomplished the same purpose without destroying the foundations of our unity and greatly diminishing the value of the individual. Leroy Washington had a moral and legal right to vote and sit at the lunch counter not because he was black but because he was a free man created in the image of God and a citizen in good standing. The same rights and responsibilities applied to everyone, irrespective of one's group membership, are the basis for equal justice under the law. Unfortunately, group rights has set aside equal rights under the law for individuals and resulted in tribalism where the society and the courts must constantly choose between what group they will favor with little basis for doing so. This can lead only to further deterioration of "e pluribus unum" and will serve only those who wish to dominate us
This is a good comment on victimhood and preferred groups. The basis of Christian Judaic law had always been the primacy of the individual standing before God and the government with respect to rights and responsibilities. This was upset to a large degree by the civil rights laws of the 60s in the US. They established group rights over the rights of individuals and led to the tribalization of groups, pitting one against another. The civils rights laws could have accomplished the same purpose without destroying the foundations of our unity and greatly diminishing the value of the individual. Leroy Washington had a moral and legal right to vote and sit at the lunch counter not because he was black but because he was a free man created in the image of God and a citizen in good standing. The same rights and responsibilities applied to everyone, irrespective of one's group membership, are the basis for equal justice under the law. Unfortunately, group rights has set aside equal rights under the law for individuals and resulted in tribalism where the society and the courts must constantly choose between what group they will favor with little basis for doing so. This can lead only to further deterioration of "e pluribus unum" and will serve only those who wish to dominate us