Attorney General Barr Defends Religious Liberty from Secular Progressives in Remarks at Notre Dame
“Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate utilitarian rules for human conduct”
When you read things like this, it becomes easier to understand why so many on the left revile Barr. He was an excellent choice for Attorney General by Trump.
The Observer reports:
William Barr speaks at Notre Dame about ‘militant’ forces of secularism, religious liberty in America
U.S. Attorney General William Barr spoke at Notre Dame Law School on Friday evening, calling for a defense of Judeo-Christian values and religious freedom in response to growing secularism in America.
The event was reserved for students, faculty and staff of the Notre Dame Law School and de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, both of which hosted the lecture. It took place in the McCartan Courtroom while another room in the law school streamed the speech to another crowd of ticket-holding students and faculty.
Barr began by discussing the new challenges the United States is facing today. It’s a difficulty he said the Founding Fathers foresaw as “the supreme test of a free society.”
“The central question was whether over the long haul, we the people can handle freedom,” Barr said. “The question was whether the citizens in such a free society could maintain the moral discipline and virtue necessary for the survival of free institutions.”
In the Founders’ view, Barr said, free government was only suitable for people who had the discipline to control themselves according to a transcendent moral order. As John Adams put it, he said, the United States Constitution was made only for “a moral and religious people.”
“Now, modern secularists dismiss this idea of morality as sort of otherworldly superstition imposed by a killjoy clergy,” Barr said. “But in fact, Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate utilitarian rules for human conduct. They reflect the rules that are best for man not in the by-and-by but in the here-and-now.”
By the same token, he said, violations of these moral laws have “bad, real world consequences” for man and society — such as society is seeing today.
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It’s always nice to listen to the frothing left screech about things on the internet, because that points out the best articles and speeches. In this case, Barr’s speech is awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqknuqy2lo0