Given our proclivity to change wrong to right and vice versa (not only by moody public opinion but SCOTUS decrees, another form of “opinion”), how can we expect the people to maintain a respect for the law and order that is necessary to sustain peace and stability?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consider how our “law code” – our Constitution – has been changed in our short 300-year history.\u00a0 We can’t even keep a consistent standard on fundamental matters of marriage and murder!\u00a0 Look, by contrast at Rome with its law code, the Twelve Tables.\u00a0 The code remained for 900 years as the foundation for the western world.\u00a0 As Will Durant puts it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Twelve Tables constituted one of the severest codes in history.\u00a0 They retained\u00a0 the old paternal omnipotence of a military-agricultural society;\u00a0 allowed the father to scourge, chain, imprison, sell, or kill any of his children – merely adding that a son thrice sold was thereafter free from his father’s rule.\u00a0 Class division was preserved by forbidding the marriage of a patrician with a plebeian.\u00a0 Creditors received every right against\u00a0 debtors.\u00a0 Owners could dispose freely of their property by will; property rights were held so sacred that a thief caught in the act was given as a slave to the man whom he had robbed.\u00a0 Penalties ranged from simple fines to exile, enslavement, or death.\u00a0 Sever took the form of equivalent retaliation (lex talionis<\/em>); many were fines delicately adjusted to the rank of the victim.\u00a0 “For breaking the bonds of freeman, 300 asses; of a slave, 150 asses.” Death was decreed for libel, bribery, perjury, harvest thieving, nocturnal damage to a neighbor’s crops, the defrauding of a ‘client’ by a patron, “practicing enchantments,” arson, murder, and ‘seditious gatherings in the city by night.’\u00a0 The parricide was tied tin a sack, sometimes with a cock, a dog, a monkey, or a viper, and cast into the river.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The point, of course, is not to gawk at Rome’s superiority but to humble ourselves in the face of our own foolish frailty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the foundation for our<\/em> laws? What is the basis for discriminating between right an wrong? Between the criminal the upright citizen? What makes one person a good guy and another a bad guy? God’s law! Indeed, preferable even to the Twelve Tables is the Decalogue! Yes, the very Commandments given by Moses and upheld by Jesus and the Apostles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They are the foundation for Western (Christian) civilization, which was been around for two centuries (indeed, longer than the Roman Empire)!\u00a0 And it will continue.\u00a0 His Law and Gospel will endure until the End!\u00a0 His Word will not fail.\u00a0 Let no laws of the states and nation, then, contradict the Law of God!\u00a0 And let Him not be angered by our foolish flouting of His commands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wake up, nation!\u00a0 If you love justice, law, and order, stop the baby murder, Re-criminalize sodomy. Return to the Big Ten and save yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8 March, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Given our proclivity to change wrong to right and vice versa (not only by moody public opinion but SCOTUS decrees, another form of “opinion”), how can we expect the people to maintain a respect for the law and order that is necessary to sustain peace and stability?\u00a0 Consider how our “law code” – our Constitution […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,21,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4343,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}