Bob Hugin, the 2018 Republican candidate for
U.S. senator from New Jersey, was the subject of a 6/28/18 N.J. Star-Ledger
letter titled Hugin turns his back on GOP values. Observing that Hugin
“proclaims himself to be pro-choice and pro-marriage equality,” the writer
labels Hugin “a Democrat masquerading as a Republican.”
No surprise. My focus is on the writer’s
reasoning, which is not the usual religious objection to legalized abortion and
gay marriage. The letter says:
Right now, America is in trouble because of an aging population.
In terms of retirement, Social Security, Medicare, etc., there are not enough
young people to sustain these important programs. The workforce also
needs more young people. The birth rate is low and the only thing growing
our population is immigration. Yet we have a man running for Senate who wants
to promote “choice” (abortion), thus killing off more of the next generation.
Marriage equality is barren by its very nature and does not produce children,
yet Hugin endorsers it. [sic]
Get that? Abortion and gay marriage should be
outlawed because the elderly need ghe children to support them. What about the
women and gay individuals whose freedom to pursue their individual happiness
will be crushed?
The evil of collectivism is laid bare here. To a
collectivist, individual lives mean nothing. Instead of the mystical “abortion
and gay marriage violates God’s law,” we are told that the collective needs supersede
the individual rights of the young.
The age problem is, of course, a problem created
by the welfare state. Young people must be enslaved to the needs of the
elderly, because the money paid in to Social Security and Medicare was not
saved and invested but spent by Congress. Even if it were, these programs would
still be immoral, albeit less bad than the current pay-as-you-go schemes.
The real horror is that the letter promotes
slavery. But young people and gays are not slaves of “the workforce” or of the
recipients of Social Security or Medicare. Women’s bodies do not belong to any
other entity other than themselves as individuals. A gay person’s decision to
marry is no one’s business, regardless of how “barren” anyone else claims
marrage equality to be.
Collectivism is one of mankind’s darkest evils.
This letter is an example of that truth.
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