The rights of the
person, even though they are expressed as rights of the individual, have a
fundamental social dimension which finds an innate and vital expression in the family….[
From the Preamble of the Charter of Rights of the Family: promulgated by the
Holy See, October 22, 1983]
The Soviets did it, the Nazis did it, the Maoists did it,
now the left leaning governments do it.
The it?
Overriding the rights of the family by usurping the
inalienable rights of parents when it comes to the education of their children:
Since they have conferred life on their
children, parents have the original, primary and inalienable right to educate
them; hence they must be acknowledged as the first and foremost educators of
their children. [op. cit. # 5]
In arrogant denial of the reality happening in various
countries at the national or provincial/state level, through the election of
right or centre right governments, the leftist parties/press/pundits etc. have
been in a petulant, at times viciously angry, frankly whiney-infantile stance
ever since things started to shift, most dramatically with the presidential
election in the United States.
The left is all for ‘the people’ so long as ‘the people’ go
along with the left’s social engineering and remain silently complacent.
Dare ‘the people’, the ‘basket of deplorables and
irredeemables’ as Hilary Clinton named them, while Obama called them
‘clingers’, whereas in truth they are, those not listened to men and women, the
backbone of democracy, hard working families, people who only seek to be heard,
yet dare they speak, the left pounces, demeaning the very people they claim to
be for.
This is the great lie of the left, that they listen to and
care for ordinary citizens: the left is not for ordinary people, it is for
their own leftist determination of how the people should transform themselves
into automatons of extreme socialist notions of human life on earth.
Recently, in Canada, byelections have had the electorate at
the federal and provincial level resoundingly boot the left out. In the
province of Ontario kick them all out all together, and elect a conservative
majority government who recently culled the left’s sex education program,
which, without parental consent taught children, starting in kindergarten,
about sexual orientation, transgender options, copulation and more.
The left and the teacher’s unions across Canada are
apoplectic because they know better than parents which age is most appropriate
for all that to be foisted on underdeveloped brains and emotions. Really?
Furthermore, as the left stresses: clearly parents who
objected to that program are……well name your phobia because they listed them
all.
The oppressive regimes listed above knew, as does the
radical left know, if you want to reengineer society you need control of the
children, at the tenderest age possible, so you can implant in them the mindset
you want.
The arrogance of the left is such that even when the people,
the voters, elect a majority government the left froths at the mouth that the
new government does not have the consent of the people!
Most human beings, of any faith or nor faith at all, are not
on the extreme left or right of religion or politics.
Most could best be described as centre left or centre right,
simply wanting to practice their faith, raise their family, be neighbourly to
everyone.
Victor Hugo’s book, Les Misérables – about the struggle of the ‘deplorables,
irredeemables, clingers’ of his day – shown powerfully in the films and musical
derived from his masterwork, is, for the left, this telling of ground down,
oppressed people interpreted not as the voice of the people in any objective
sense, but as only the people rejecting the oppression of the right and thus
clamouring for the agenda of the left.
In truth, if studied carefully, the teaching is clear: let
any oppressor grind down people by any means, economic, social engineering,
political extremism, etc., and the people, one way or another, hopefully only
by the ballot box and not violence, will rebel.
….the family, a
natural society, exists prior to the State or any other community, and
possesses inherent rights which are inalienable;….. Parents have the right to
ensure that their children are not compelled to attend classes which are not in
agreement with their own moral and religious convictions. In particular, sex
education is a basic right of the parents and must always be carried out under
their close supervision, whether at home or in educational centers chosen and
controlled by them….Every family has the right to live freely its own domestic
religious life under the guidance of the parents, as well as the right to
profess publicly and to propagate the faith, to take part in public worship and
in freely chosen programs of religious instruction, without suffering
discrimination…..The family has the right to exercise its social and political
function in the construction of society……Families have the right to form
associations with other families and institutions, in order to fulfill the
family's role suitably and effectively, as well as to protect the rights,
foster the good and represent the interests of the family. On the economic,
social, juridical and cultural levels, the rightful role of families and family
associations must be recognized in the planning and development of programs
which touch on family life. [op.cit.: preamble D; article 5 C; article 7;
article 8].
The current national and international profound wounds and
divisions, the growing angers and resentments within nations and among nations
is at a point of spinning out of control in ways which have the potential to
become too horrific to imagine.
The Catholic Church in Canada and the US continues to
hemorrhage its people to the Evangelicals because our bishops and priests, many
of them left-leaning themselves, are apparently tone deaf as well.
Unless, like St. John Paul who gifted us with the Charter of
Rights of the Family, and like Pope Francis, bishops and priests become
courageous and steadfastly, boldly, yes even to martyrdom within the culture of
death, make defense of, support of the family, our primary evangelization and
pastoral care service, then, by the end of this 21st century, the
Church in Western Europe and North America will be a very, very tiny reality
indeed, no longer having the capacity to be a field hospital, it may well be
only a tiny wayfarer’s tent.
Do you hear the
people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people who
will not be slaves again…..[ Do Hear The People Sing? From the Les
Misérables musical]
© 2018-Fr. Arthur Joseph
