When I read it, this is what I understand it to say:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
More and more though, it seems like a certain segment of society is reading:
"We hold that there are no self-evident truths, but will in the name of tolerance vigorously persecute anyone who disagrees with the following: that everyone who makes it out of the womb is equal, and that there is no such thing as complimentarity because being equal means that we are all exactly the same; that once our mothers affirm our worth as human beings - by allowing us to make it out of the womb we entered into through a completely random and meaningless sequence of events - we are entitled to certain rights; that among these are a woman's right to choose without concern for any consequences to herself or to others, the right not to be subjected to any speech we find offensive (while tolerating no constraints on our own speech, no matter how vulgar or vitriolic), and the pursuit of equality of outcome for all, regardless of the individual efforts put into achieving that outcome."
Begs the question of what the kids in our public school systems are being taught these days, doesn't it?
For those of you who understand that freedom goes hand in hand with accountability and sacrifice, I wish you a happy 4th of July. For those of you who think the second interpretation of the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence mentioned above makes more sense than the first interpretation - which happen to be the words the Declaration actually contains - I wish you a happy 4th as well, and want you to know that I will pray for you. I will also pray that none who think like you are ever given the power to be able to constrain true freedom. God bless!
In Jesus and Mary,
Gerald
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