American Law (Where To?)

Our short American history fades yet more when contrasted with the history of the Roman Republic.  But of that republic, the code of law – known as the Twelve Tables -lasted an impressively long time – some nine hundred years – as the basic law of Rome.  As Durant puts it:

The Twelve Tables constituted one of the severest codes in history.  They retained the old paternal omnipotence of a military-agricultural society; allowed the father to scourge, chain, imprison, sell, or kill any of his children – merely adding that a son thrice sold was thereafter free from his father’s rule.  Class division was preserved by forbidding the marriage of patrician with plebeian.   Creditors received every right against debtors.  Owners could dispose freely of their property by will; property rights were held so sacred that a thief caught in the act was given as a slave to the man whom he had robbed.  Penalties ranged from simple fines to exile, enslavement, or death.  Several took the form of equivalent retaliation (lex talionis); many were fines delicately adjusted to the rank of the victim.  “For breaking the bones of a freeman, 300 asses, of a slave, 150 asses.  Death was decreed for libel, bribery, perjury, harvest thieving, nocturnal damage to a neighbor’s crops, the defrauding of a “client” by a patron, “practicing enchantments,” arson, murder, and “seditious gatherings in the city by night.”  The parricide was tied in a sack, sometimes with a cock, a dog, a monkey, or a viper, and cast into the river.  (The Story of Civilization, Vol. 3, p. 32)

We pride ourselves in Western civilization on a law code more civilized, modern, and, indeed, informed by Christian and “modern” and “enlightened” influence.

But the law code of America, the Constitution, and the laws of the states have been perverted by tyrannical SCOTUS decrees.  The “progressive” and “liberationist” Lawlessness of the Godless has taken us to freedom, we think!

From what?  Freedom from: 1) male-female order, 2) defined family, and 3) laws against sodomy and abortion!  Yes, such wicked perversions have been decriminalized, trotted out and doted upon as a normal and good!

What has become of our laws over the nation’s three centuries?   All codes protecting children in the womb have been abolished by decree with the stroke of the SCOTUS pen.  Anti-sodomy laws have by the same mechanism been scrapped.

What is yet to come?  (How about Choice human cuisine for cannibals?  Might as well eat that meat we are wasting!)

We sick “puppies” need a good whipping, then a heeling under the guidance of God’s judgment and His Spirit,  and, finally, a spiritual healing and rebuilding on the basis of God’s Law.

3 Feb., 2021