Monday our country will celebrate its 240th anniversary of freedom. But freedom to or from what, as there seems to be a lot of confusion on the subject today? Certainly it encompasses freedoms that come with the Bill of Rights, those 1st ten Amendments to our enduring Constitution – such as the liberty to put into print one’s ideals, the liberty to own property and be protected from unreasonable searches on that property, and of course the one getting all the attention in our contemporary politics, the liberty to carry a slingshot (i.e., the right to bear arms).
The late, great President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his immortal State of the Union address back on Jan 6th, 1941, added two other freedoms for which we should be immeasurably thankful: the freedom from want, spoken on the heels of the Great Depression, and the freedom from national aggression, broadcast on the doorstep of the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor and the rise of the Third Reich.
Why not join us this Sunday as we probe two other freedoms that are being touted today as people’s unalienable rights: the freedom to treat my own body however I want and the freedom to voice my opinion regardless who I may hurt.