It is the law. However laws are not static. People can and often do start campaigns which lead to a law being changed. If you don't like a law and enough other people agree with you it can be changed.
Less griping and more work to change laws.
The unpleasant point is when you really don't like a law and there isn't enough public support to change it. The best I can say then is to either ignore the law and be willing to face the penalties or deal with it.
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or move where that law doesn't exist...
If it is not a prohibition of behavior that directly violates the life, limb or property of another person, it ain't a civil law.
And men shouldn't be trying to enforce the whole of God's law. Just the parts that deal with physical things, like (again the human body and human property.)
I will most certainly speak out against those who use violence against people who are not violating the life, limb or property of other people. And I will gripe about those who support the enforcers in their wrong behaviors.
"Don't complain about a regulation because it's a regulation?" Or "Don't blame them for enforcing a stupid regulation?" I don't buy into that for a second. You don't work within the system created by corrupt and unethical men.
You work around it and against it. From the bottom up, from the outside in. Not from within, or by gaining the fleeting support of those within. You don't enter the machine without becoming a part of it. There are thousands of bright-eyed, good-intentioned politicians who made the mistake of thinking they could change the system. They were the ones who got changed.
Love it when people do not like certian laws they call it unjust and decide they do not have to follow it. How is that working out for you or all those who are prison claiming the same defense. The fact is unless it violates the U.S. Constitution it is a legal law or regulation in this country. I guess as for God's law we will face that on Judgement Day!!!
"Love it when people do not like certian laws they call it unjust and decide they do not have to follow it."
Me too! I love Rosa Parks! I love Harriet Tubman!
"How is that working out for you or all those who are prison claiming the same defense."
What, precisely, are you attempting to say by that? Are you saying, "Might makes right?" That "the majority is always right?" If the majority was always right, statutes would be static. You seem to take delight in the fact that those who go against the majority, even if they are doing nothing morally wrong, have violence inflicted on them.
Putting people in prison for disobeying a dictate by powerful men is not a proof that the law was just, as you unwittingly (or worse: knowingly!) said.
"The fact is unless it violates the U.S. Constitution it is a legal law or regulation in this country."
A law is not an arbitrary dictate by those who happen to have power. A law is an ordinance of right reason. Might, 3rdman, does not make right. The majority saying something is a law does not make it so, any more than the majority of people saying something is moral makes it so.
If you would say, "Serves him right" when you hear about an 80-year old man going to prison because he didn't ask permission from the State to exercise his God-given right to self-defense with the best means in existence, there is something messed up in your head.
If you would say, "Rosa Parks should have been arrested for breaking the law, because she was breaking the law," there is something messed up in your head.
If you would say, "It's wrong to get high on marijuana because it's prohibited, but it's moral to get hammered on alcohol because it's not," you are a butcher of logic.
How can you even respect your own point of view, 3rdman? You think it's moral to put people in prison for doing things that aren't even immoral. That is insane.
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Those acts against Rosa Parks were violations of the U.S. Constitution, thus a violation of the law. You made my point. Thanks. Slavery was not a violation of the U.S. Constitution in the beginning and we had to ammend it to correct this outrage. Keeping women from voting was not uncostitutional in the beginning but we ammended it once more to correct another outrage. Marijuana is illegal because the Constitution does not prohibited us from making it so. What I love is when people throw the Constitution out their when it suites their cause, but turn their back on it if does not support it, and then use God as the ultimate authority as if God spoke to the directly. Did Jesus not tell Peter in the garden to obey the lawful authority. Did Jesus drink wine, which contained alcohol, yes he did. Did Jesus lite one up and get high, who know the bible does not say one way or another. Your view of morality is warped. Your morality appears to be do what make you feel good as long as it does not hurt anyone else. Show me in the bible were Jesus speaks of this. The fact he speaks the opposite. Morality is one of the most misused words in the English language.
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