Liberty Minute September 24 2013

To be a Progressive is to believe that officially sanctioned coercion is the magic ingredient that makes government policies and institutions morally superior to private, voluntary association. Progressives treat the State as a divine entity, and generally ignore the corruption and violence that are inescapable elements of all State action.

Few, if any, Progressive writers have exhibited this tendency more prominently than Daily Beast columnist Michelle Goldberg. In a recent essay entitled ?The Sinister Side of Home Schooling,? Goldberg used a single horrific case of child abuse involving home-schooling parents as if it were representative of the millions of conscientious parents who love and educate their children. This act of misrepresentation-by-anecdote was intended to demonstrate that homeschooling is supposedly dangerous to children because it is unregulated.

Alittle more than a week earlier, the same Michelle Goldberg published an essay denouncing efforts to impose health and safety regulations on abortion clinics ? facilities that have the sole function of carrying out State-licensed child killing. Such efforts, shrieked Goldberg, are a form of "right-wing terrorism.?

For Progressives of Goldberg?s ilk, killing a child with the State?s blessing is a sacred right, but educating a child without the State?s sanction is a crime.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.