Truth, Responsibility and Love

Commencement address by Ryan T. Anderson 

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/05/10080/

"You will hear some claim a right to do whatever they want, provided it doesn’t harm others, by which they mean others who can complain about it. (Notice where this leaves the vulnerable, the marginalized, and the unborn.) You will hear others claim a right to fulfill their desires without consequence, without judgment, but with subsidies. (Just think of the Life of Julia.)"

"Children, too, bear responsibility, especially as parents grow old. Too many of us think it’s the government’s job to care for our aging parents and grandparents. But when scripture speaks of honoring your mother and your father, it doesn’t only mean behaving yourself when you’re a kid. It also means caring for your parents as they age: whenever possible, inviting them into your homes, rather than sending them to a nursing home. Viewing them as your responsibility, not just Social Security’s. The Psalmist implores, “Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.” Regent graduates: care for your parents." 

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• "In the world you are stepping into, when you strive to live this way, there will be naysayers. People will tell you that you’re deluded, that truth doesn’t exist, that God doesn’t exist—that you are on the wrong side of history. It’s the same thing that they told pro-lifers forty years ago, and that they told the abolitionists before that."