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California Family Minute

February 4, 2011

Diversity and the ‘Common Good’

by Ron Prentice,
Chief Executive Officer

Ideally, [American] government was to be based upon the consent of the people, either directly or indirectly through representatives elected for that purpose, and decisions were to be derived from an open and deliberate discussion of what best served the common good.
                                      -Donald Lutz, Ph.D., University of Houston

There’s the rub: How can we have unlimited diversity and still favor the “common good?” What happens to laws – created according to principles of “common good” – when individual freedoms are given greater weight than what is in the best interest of society and its future?

The voices of special interests are growing louder and louder, and the interests that are currently holding sway are those that are best financed. The public sector labor unions, the homosexual lobby, and the pro-abortion industry are three such examples of both national and state power. Solidly held worldviews, objective social science and the common good often get in the way of an elected representative’s re-election.

It shouldn’t surprise us that Californians are using the initiative process more and more, bypassing our elected representatives. 

Wait a minute, who says that respect for life, traditional marriage and limited government benefits the common good? Well, objective social science does. And so does history. And yes, research and history align with biblical truth (worldview), too.

How does abortion or physician-assisted suicide hinder the common good? It creates a society that pursues avoidance of pain, consequences, and grief. But common sense and research says we are kidding ourselves, as abortion prompts physical, emotional and mental duress, and ends the lives of preborn children (50 million+ in the United States alone since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973).

If we’re not already, you and I need to start doing our own homework. Relying on secular media, the entertainment industry, and our Legislature in its current make-up to inform, “educate,” and manage true societal good is getting us into deep, deep waters.

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