Comments on: Editors Thoughts http://harnettnews.org/?p=303 Giving You The News Impartially, Without Fear or Favor Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Sonya Holmes http://harnettnews.org/?p=303#comment-147 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:44:25 +0000 http://harnettnews.org/?p=303#comment-147 This is why we are so divided in this state and country. The first task at hand for every person elected to office is to honor the oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, US and state.
Anything else they do while in office should be in persuence of this oath.

Just because something is “legal” does not make it “moral”. Just because something is “moral” does not make it “legal” either. If we truly are to uphold the Constitution then we must accept our duties as individuals to hold ourselves as well as our elected officials accountable for adherence to those documents.

We are to have individual liberty but that can not happen if every aspect of our lives is legislated. Do you want the freedom to live your life or do you want to tell others how to live theirs? Remember when you tell someone else what to do then you hold the accountability as to what happens as a result of that decree. Some of those results can be financially costly as well as tragic.

This is what makes this country so wonderful we each are allowed to make our own decisions and also, as a result are reponsible for the consequences of those decisions (good or bad). Being free to make your own choices means to be free to suffer the failure if it comes as a result of those choices. Not to make me pay for a decision someone else made when I had no input into that decision.

Stay involved with and contact your legislators at every level! That is your DUTY as an American citizen. Don’t avoid your duty or you can’t hold them accountable for what they do in your name while in office.

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