“Personal responsibility enforced by the government is no such thing.”
*sigh*
I’m talking about how one is to be governed by God, not the State. Autonomy defies communism, yes, it also defies Faith, in arguing that nobody is the boss of you, not even God. In this, it is contrary to what America was founded on.
Rights come from God, you did not earn them, or get them yourself.
We Hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their CREATOR, certain inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
God gave you these rights, not you. Autonomy is wrong, and contradicts what America believes.
“Ever hear of “the right to life, LIBERTY and the pursuit of happiness”? “
Ever hear, GRANTED BY THEIR CREATOR
“A definition of liberty from online: ‘the freedom to think or act without being constrained by necessity or force.’ :
Freedom without constraint is libertinism. It is not the same as Liberty.
“When government is making someone live up to his/her obligations it is as a means of protecting the rights of the one on the receiving end of those obligations”
Again, I am talking about being governed by God, not by the government.
So what does Rick Santorum or any other government official have to do with that?
You wrote a long response that went around and around and didn't even touch on what Santorum said and how I responded to it.
Ever hear, GRANTED BY THEIR CREATOR
And where, exactly, does the GOVERNMENT get off coming between me and "MY CREATOR" (which covers all belief systems, whether folks like you like to believe it or not--otherwise it would say specifically the Christian God).
*sigh* is right--you have backtracked yourself into saying Rick Santorum is right in saying the government has a responsibility to determine how *I* am behaving according to HIS idea of the creator--please show me where THAT is in the Constitution.
Your response to me completely contradicts what you said before. Typical of the shifting belief systems going on around here when people bend their standards to conform to some politician they like.
Give me LIBERTY, not this cult of personality baloney.