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Should the federal government set a national age for sexual consent for teens?

For the reasonable mind, whether yes or no, the federal government should determine when young men and women come of biological maturity is a no-brainer. The question that needs to be addressed is not a matter of when teens should be allowed sexual I.D. cards; Mother Nature comes in her own time, and all of the legislation in the world cannot withstand the wheels of nature. The question that needs to be addressed is why we struggle as a society to prevent the obvious from happening rather than learning from and cooperating with a system of creation that has us dated by what...a few million years? Well, since the Garden of Eden, anyway.

Age limits and requirements for everything are more or less throwbacks to an era when humanity perceived itself as the center of the universe with an amazing ability to control everything. One look at our planet and the outlandish reality of "space debris" should tell anyone with ears to hear how well that theory is working out.

Unwittingly, proponents of stricter laws on moral-societal issues of sexual consent are ceding yet more control to the eventuality of a police state: has anyone read "1984?" We are moving away from the notion that government is for the people, by the people, of the people and becoming lulled into an expectation that government is the big brother who will raise our kids and keep us safe.

That issue, however, is part of a total package where we, as a society, discover that we are no longer at liberty to think or act or breathe without the consent of a pass card. More to point, each one of us knew in our hearts when we came of sexual acquisition and it had nothing to do with a photograph on a state issued I.D. card. What it had to do with was the extent of an honest rapport we had with those we trusted to nurture the well being of our future.

We cannot put upon government the responsibility that befalls us at the home level. Doing so is an invitation to an enemy that has stalked free societies since the beginning of time. The idea of government is administration, not the idea of tyranny, and if we find the idea of home front moral education in lack of priority, the options are far less appealing.

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