At The Price of Liberty, Carey Roberts writes:

Back when she was a student at Yale Law School, Hillary wrote in the Harvard Educational Review that 'marriage, slavery, and the Indian reservation system' constitute dependency arrangements that must be abolished. Ridiculing the notion that families are 'private, nonpolitical units,' she demanded that we 'remodel' the time-honored institution.

Two decades later she wrote It Takes a Village, the socialist manifesto that justifies governmental intrusion into the most intimate aspects of family life.

And Clinton's 2003 book Living History reads like the autobiography of a woman obsessed with feminist activism, a power-mad princess in a pantsuit.

Dr. Brian Melton at the Intellectual Conservative writes:

Educated people today seem to be embracing concepts that clearheaded philosophers of an earlier era would quickly recognize as lunacy. An interviewee of the San Francisco Chronicle (long known as a nationally ranked platform for less-than-brilliant comments) has recently trotted out one of the oldest, but most disturbing ideas: that the government has a more basic claim on children than parents do.

Over and over, in my study of Scripture, I have found good doctrine has been applied to bad models. Yes, fathers have authority in the home. But when that authority is applied to the wrong model of the family, fathers rule as tyrants in the home, not as Biblical, Christ-like servant leaders, stewards of a Godly legacy.

Another bad model comes in Christians, especially American Christians' understanding of their role as citizens. They take Romans 13:1-2:

Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

So American Christians read the newspaper, whine like mules, and pray for something they call "the rapture." Instead, they should recognize that the American government (whether the politicians will admit it or not) is still a "government of the people, by the people." Think that through: in America, you are the authority behind the government.

As Bryan Johnson wrote in the National Review, September 26, 1994:

CONGRESS and the American people have an agreement: Congress can create laws, but they should be necessary and effective. In return, once a law is passed, the people (or most of them, anyway) will obey it. When that agreement breaks down, so does the rule of law. Ineffective laws, or laws that encroach too much on the private domain, breed cynicism, contempt, and non-compliance. [emphasis mine]

When the apostles were told they could no longer preach the Gospel, they responded, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." (Acts 4:19, 20)

Jesus said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments." (John 14:15)

God said, "You [not the State] shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house [not the village], when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up." (Deuteronomy 6:7)

Do you think it will just get better if you sit on your couch with the remote? You can't watch the State rob you blind (they already mug you annually, the next mugging scheduled in 34 days) of your liberties. You're not allowing suffering for yourself. You're bringing it on your children and grandchildren. What a legacy. I know the legacy I want to leave for my family: