"Who Made Thee"

The following quotation -- relevant, I hope, to our ongoing consideration of the importance of "moral anthropology" to law and legal theory -- is from Peter A. Speckhard's essay, "Who Made Thee?:  On Telling People Who They Really Are," in the latest issue of Touchstone:

[W]e must never stop asking [Christ's question, "who do you say that I am?"], not just about our Lord but also about the least of his brethren, and not simply among ourselves but of everyone.  Who do you say people are?  It is no religious intrusion into the domain of the state to insist that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people should know what a person is.  The question is inherently religous.  The answer is the foundation for all human rights.  A government that disqualifies answers for being religious disqualifies all answers, even self-evident truths, and ceases to defend basic human rights as surely as it ceases to know what humans are.

For more on this claim, see, e.g., Michael Perry's "Under God".

Rick