points of agreement

[Brad Jacob]

I will leave it to greater minds than mine, such as Professors McConnell and Duncan, to analyze Prof. Dwyer's points in detail if they are inclined to do so.  I get the sense that my own views are far out of the mainstream on the list, so I won't belabor this, but I disagree with most of Prof. Dwyer's "points of agreement" because I reject number one:

> 1. The state must decide how child-rearing authority is to be legally
> allocated among parents, state officials/agencies, and other parties.
> (laws and legal rights do not fall from the sky, nor emanate from the
> keyboards of academics).

I believe that God decides how child-rearing authority is allocated, and it is the duty of people, and the government created by We The People, to seek and implement His wisdom as best we can.  As a general proposition, final child-rearing authority rests with parents.  Other God-ordained institutions (e.g., civil government) should seek to interfere only in the most extreme cases, and then with fear and trembling.

BTW, Doug Laycock's point wrt the C.S. Lewis book was right on:  Campus Crusade tends to be populated by people who think a lot like I do (I am a product of evangelical campus ministry in the 1970s), and they are a very small minority at Dartmouth and most other major universities.

Brad

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