Apart from from the health care rationing that Obamacare would foster on American citizens, I argue too that the questionable morality of the self-selected administrators of the project would drive policy decisions in directions that violate traditional norms. “Do you really want people like Hillary Clinton or Barbara Boxer making your health care decisions?” I ask. Sound alarmist? Read the reasoning behind Clinton’s praise of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal below and you will see that the goal is much broader than many advocates are letting on.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Source: Alliance Defense Fund<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/rm\/2010\/12\/153126.htm<\/a>
\nPress Statement \u2013 Repeal of Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell
\nHillary Rodham Clinton
\nSecretary of State
\nWashington, DC
\nDecember 18, 2010
\nThis is a historic step forward for all Americans, a step toward a more perfect union and a more perfect reflection of our core values. As the President and I have repeatedly said, we are committed to universal standards abroad and here at home. Our progress on equality here strengthens our advocacy for human dignity everywhere.<\/p>\n

PRN: 2010\/1842<\/p>\n

Comment by Piero A. Tozzi<\/a>
\nSenior Legal Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund
\n
\nOver the weekend, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued the press release set forth above. The term \u201cuniversal standards\u201d \u2014 the language of objective morality \u2014 has been (mis)appropriated by the New Human Rights lobby to push the abortion and \u201csexual orientation\u201d agendas along with other left wing causes. This language has become commonplace in UN documents and the work of treaty compliance committees, particularly the committee that monitors compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).<\/p>\n

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 \u2014 a document rooted in the natural law \u2014 has also been hijacked by people who ultimately would undermine it. The call for new \u201crights\u201d (i.e. the right to abortion, rights based on \u201csexual orientation and gender identity\u201d) to trump truly fundamental rights (i.e. the right to life, the right of free expression, the right of conscience) is more advanced in global institutions than in the United States. Secretary Clinton echoes the rhetoric, and, along with a number of others at State \u2014 Harold Hongju Koh, Lynn Sicade in particular \u2014 seeks to import these new transnationalist norms. That was evident in the push to repeal DADT and also in the ongoing push to ratify CEDAW and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.<\/p>\n

Two strands of thought are evident in the new global morality which have combined to form a real witch\u2019s brew. One is the relativistic and autonomistic ethos of secular liberalism (see e.g., Ronald Dworkin). The other is a dialecticism\/cultural Marxism that sees social relations (\u201cgender,\u201d family, etc.) in terms of oppressor (white males, the Church, the natural\/patriarchal family, heterosexist norms, etc.) and oppressed (feminist women, groups advocating homosexual behavior, etc.).<\/p>\n

In both cases, the enforcement of so-called \u201cuniversal standards\u201d requires coercion: foreign aid becomes a tool to force developing nations to adopt population control policies; Balkan states seeking EU admission must adopt sexual orientation non-discrimination standards into their laws or else be denied membership, etc.<\/p>\n

Recommended Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicholas Wolterstorff\u2019s, Justice: Rights and Wrongs<\/a> (2008) (asserts that human rights must be grounded in the notion of a transcendent Deity in whose image man is created or else the human rights project will fail)<\/p>\n

James Kalb, The Tyranny of Liberalism<\/a> (2006). (The thesis of this book is summarized in this interview with the author http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-25495?l=english<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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