This insightful guest post is from Regent Law alumna Amy Hilton:
Dr. Ben Carson, renowned surgeon
and Republican presidential candidate, addressed the Christian
Legal Society’s national
conference in New Orleans this weekend. The theme of the conference was “Hearing God in
the Storm: Practicing Law in Turbulent Times.” The goals of the Christian Legal
Society include the protection and defense of life and religious liberty.
Dr. Carson was a natural choice for
the CLS conference, because he recognizes the threat posed by the philosophy of
Individualism. Individualism is a belief-system that “rejects a
transcendent morality and Higher Authority in favor of the exaltation of the
individual and the submission of law and religion to individual desires.” When
the individual is supreme, the family suffers. Politico
reports that
Carson [has] beat
back criticism of earlier comments in which he suggested that the "women's
lib movement" helped contribute to a more entitled "me
generation" of Americans.
The fact of the
matter is, you know, the family structure is one of the foundations of a strong
country. And when we begin to … move it apart from the family and say, 'no,
it's about this specific member of the family and it's about their rights and
how they feel,' that's problematic," he said. "It has nothing to do
with the women's movement, although I know a lot of people on the left have
tried to make it sound that [way]."
Dr. Carson
also understands that Individualism
leads to father-absence, which has devastating
results on children. (Previously discussed here
on this blog). He pointed to father-absence as a factor that contributes to
violence among youth. Bloomberg
reports:
"Usually the father figure is
where you learn how to respond to authority," Carson said in an interview last
week with American Family Radio. "So now you become a teenager, you’re out
there, you really have no idea how to respond to authority, you eventually run
into the police or you run into somebody else in the neighborhood who also
doesn’t know how to respond but is badder than you are, and you get killed or
you end up in the penal system."
The Fatherhood
Initiative confirms Dr. Carson’s point: “Even after controlling for income,
youths in father-absent households still had significantly higher odds of
incarceration than those in mother-father families. Youths who never had a
father in the household experienced the highest odds.”
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