These days secular progressives seem to be forever touting new “rights” that we-the-people have magically acquired – strangely enough – after millennia of human existence. I mean just think of all the great things we’re suddenly entitled to: abortion rights, “fair” wage rights, bathroom rights, freedom from religion rights – oh, and rights to lots of free stuff; food, housing, healthcare, college…
 
In a way this seemingly endless list of privileges began with the unfortunate perversion of one of the unalienable rights named in the Declaration of Independence. “Pursuit” has been deliberately erased from the the phrase “pursuit of happiness,” resulting in a whole lot of self-centered pursuing of consequence-free happiness.

 
Many years ago C.S.Lewis exposed that silly “right to happiness” as the justification for selfish – frequently amoral – behaviors that it really is ~

Lewis delivered this lecture back in 1963, before the Sexual Revolution really went into overdrive later in that decade. Today’s social wreckage (broken marriages, broken families, broken lives) – the fruits of that revolution – bears witness to his wisdom and prescience.

 
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