Liberty!

When I say liberty, I do not simply mean what is referred to as free enterprise. I mean liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts and live is own life as he desires to think and to live. A liberty of the family to decide how they wish to live, what they want to eat for breakfast and for dinner, and how they wish to spend their time. Liberty of a man to develop his ideas and get other people to teach those ideas if he can convince them that they add some value to the world. Liberty of every local community to decide how it's children will be educated, how it's local services should be run, and who it's local leader should be. Liberty of a man to choose his own occupation and liberty of a man to run his own business as he thinks it otta be run, as long as it does not interfere with the right of other people to do the same thing. - Robert A Taft

Gets me thinking about the whole evolution battle going on in the courts. If the local communities believe in Christianity, then I think their parents and educators should be free to teach that way of thinking. I personally have different beliefs, but I hope I will have the liberty to pass those ideas onto my own children without the interference of some lobbyist social group. Until we stop this kind of social bigotry, we will never be the nation the framers intended. And more importantly, we'll never be the nation of ideals we've so delusionally painted for the rest of the world.