“All men are created equal” is the creed that makes a diverse nation possible.  But a flaw was built into the original construction, which is open to multiple interpretations, including destructive ones.  The most destructive of these is the idea that government can and should “level the playing field”.  Obviously, all people are not created equal but are born with disparate abilities and characteristics.  People are clearly unequal in beauty, intelligence, character, upbringing, and other vital aspects of person-hood that lead directly to inequalities or celebrity, power, wealth, and social standing.  Because these inequalities are rooted in human nature, there can never be a level playing field.  Moreover, the efforts to produce one must lead (and historically have led) to the loss if individual freedom.  This is because the field can only be made equal–and then only superficially–by government force as an all-powerful state takes the earned fruits of one person’s labor, intelligence and talent and distributes it to those it prefers, and does so in the name of “social justice”.

The American Founders understood that there is an irreconcilable conflict between freedom and equality, between individual liberty and equal results.  They understood that “social justice” in practice is just a rationale for the taking of one person’s achievements, and giving them to others who are favored by the party in power.  What is justice to some is necessarily theft to others.  It is an “injustice justice” system.  In order to block such levelers, the founders created a Constitution that guaranteed property rights and instituted a system of checks and balances to frustrate their designs.  The purpose of these Constitutional checks, as their chief author James Madison wrote, was to thwart the “rage…for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project.”  History has proven the wisdom of the Founder’s concern.

In a free society composed of unequal individuals, the drive to level the playing field is a totalitarian desire and a threat to freedom because it empowers government to confiscate the talents and earnings of some for the benefits of those it favors.  The expansion of governmental power into every individual sphere whatever its justification entails a loss of freedom for all.  Since the targets of the levelers are the creators of society’s wealth, an inevitable result of social justice is generalized poverty and economic decline.

Excerpts from Freedom Center, David Horowitz & John Perazzo

Feel free to send to your pastor or priest who preaches social justice.  Ask how it doesn’t violate: “Thou shalt not steal”.