The author points out that conservative white Protestants never even considered an alliance with conservative Black Protestants while eugenicists like Fosdick were building bridges to the Black community and gaining a reputation as pro-Black. This quandary haunts us to this day.
Today's irony is that this article is being posted at the same time when other articles on the Ferguson situation are eliciting very Sanger-like emotional responses from conservatives.
What a strange world we live in.
They're not conservatives, they're anti-conservatives. Conservatives still "hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."
Anti-conservative philosophy is godless and humanistic, premised on the shifting sand of arbitrary human will.
Truth is stranger than fiction ALL the time. Possibly an experiment gone wrong in a big way.
Post 61 raises an interesting issue. As long as people are content to make their own way through life, and do not ask for, much less insist on forced charity money, as is being done by those Ferguson Demonstrators, - just that long can anyone reproduce freely as they see fit.
As soon as they demand charity, the givers of that charity have a say in how it is disbursed, and to what end.
To date, no one has found a valid end run around the hard reality that “Who pays the Piper, calls the tune.”
TANSTAAFL.
PS I have a hard time imagining either Moses or Jesus seeing the case Carry_Okie used, that of parents who both carried genes sure to produce a terminally ill child and who deliberately had such a child knowing they could/would pass the costs onto others.
PPS Where does individual responsibility enter this discussion? If G*d gave us Free Will, did not responsibility come as an inseparable part of that Divine gift?