There is law superior to that of the state. It is the basis of our Declaration and Constitution. Despite the efforts of the left to ignore it, it cannot be repealed. It is why early Americans feared God’s wrath for so hideously violating it through the institution of slavery. America 2014 should likewise fear God’s wrath.
There is a swift and opposite change in natural law once one is inside the DC beltway.
To add to this post, I can highly recommend the book, What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide by J. Budziszewski.
“In this new revised edition of his groundbreaking work, Professor J. Budziszewski questions the modern assumption that moral truths are unknowable. With clear and logical arguments he rehabilitates the natural law tradition and restores confidence in a moral code based upon human nature.
What We Can’t Not Know explains the rational foundation of what we all really know to be right and wrong and shows how that foundation has been kicked out from under western society. Having gone through stages of atheism and nihilism in his own search for truth, Budziszewski understands the philosophical and personal roots of moral relativism. With wisdom born of both experience and rigorous intellectual inquiry, he offers a firm foothold to those who are attempting either to understand or to defend the reasonableness of traditional morality.
While natural law bridges the chasms that can be caused by religious and philosophical differences, Budziszewski believes that natural law theory has entered a new phase, in which theology will again have pride of place. While religious belief might appear to hamper the search for common ground, Budziszewski demonstrates that it is not an obstacle, but a pathway to apprehending universal norms of behavior.
“All too often higher education today deems its task to be the production of epistemological agnostics and moral nihilists. What We Can’t Not Know provides young people with the argumentative ammunition they need to resist that juggernaut.”
- John M. Grondelski, First Things
J. Budziszewski is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Among his several books are The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man and The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction.”
It’s available in print or electronic form and is not expensive. This is an excellent book for a beginner who really wants to understand and be able to explain the natural law to others. ;-)