Individual Rights

["Keith Dimeler" <k_dimeler@hotmail.com>]

Hi.  My name is Keith Dimeler and I have been following the discussion on 
vision2020 for about 8 months now.  I am glad for the forum.

It struck me odd the statement made by Debi Robinson-Smith.

"The premise of the Constitution of the USA is that individual rights 
prevail----freedom of
>religion, freedom of dissent, freedom of CHOICE----too bad for all
>those who wish to impose their religious righteousness on the rest
>of us. Get patriotic, for Diety's sake, and worship your way while I
>worship mine. If you want your children mind controlled by your
>religion, go for it. I just take exception when you want my children
>to follow your rigid, righteous, dogmatic and judgemental view
>points...."

It seems that in this debate and in our country, many promote the concept of 
individual rights.  This is a good thing, if placed within its proper 
context.  However, what most people fail to recognize is that their children 
also understand what the rhetoric of individual rights means.....and they 
apply it well.  The disobey their parents, they get upset when they are not 
permitted to do everything they want, and they promote their own individual 
rights over those in real authority over them.  I don't say this is true for 
everyone, but it is true generally.  Parents are always wondering when the 
rebellious stage will end, attributing the rebellion to a normal period in a 
young person's life.  This is not true.  The rebellion is taught.  
Individual rights is our life, is our history, and is our king.  The 
children begin to understand and apply this concept.  The fruit is what we 
see day in and day out.

The freedoms we have in the U.S. are great and I am glad to be living in 
this country.  But we have to start to see the need for true and honorable 
hierarchy.  A child should strive to obey his parents, not seek all the ways 
around his parent's wishes.  If we continue to preach the mantra of 
individual rights, then we will continue to see the dismantling of families, 
and in the end, we will have no cohesiveness at all.

Keith Dimeler



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