Respect diversity

Every organism and object on this planet plays a unique and vital role in our enduring existence. Likewise, the founders of this country understood that a pluralistic society based on our respectful and collective differences, would ultimately give us the strength to build a great nation. Those collective differences could only be achieved through individual freedom.

Freedom will never dictate the clothes you can wear, words you can use, jobs you can have, self worth, social status, how the law applies to you, how the rules apply to you, opportunities you are afforded, special treatment, less treatment, or any other level of differentiation that is not deserved through personal development and responsibility.

And for those who claim America needs to be more a part of the “global community,” you could not be more wrong.

America is the global community. It’s what we strive for. It’s the founders’ idea that a pluralistic society, one based on our collective differences founded in freedom, is what will give us the strength to persevere.

Have we perfected it? Of course not. But our system of government, and our core beliefs in honest debate, have allowed more progress for the cause of global humanity than any other nation in recorded history.

This story was originally published July 2, 2015 at 8:26 AM with the headline "Respect diversity."