Time caves to press restrictions

This just in: The same supreme court that says that your political “core” speech is subject to restrictions and that property rights are conditional grants from the government; has now determined that reporters who refuse to provide their sources can to go jail. Of course, I’m sure it has to be “really” important. And they wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t a matter of national insecurity. The press has always enjoyed a particular freedom in this nation. Given the important function that the handbill printers provided at the onset of the Revolutionary War, this is not surprising.

That the press has often misused their freedom is a given. That they often mischaracterize, misreport, and misinform is a given. And that’s just the “mainstream” or “establishment” media. As Christians, we acknowledge that the goal is that people exercise their freedom for good, and not for evil, yet the government should not be the arbiter of what is good or evil. For governments rise and fall at the whim of the Almighty. None of them are worth a darn.

So what if they are God’s creation? So what if they are created for our good? That does and should not create in us any obligation to make it our master, let alone our conscience. What ever happened to “No king but King Jesus!”? The ultimate government will be the Physical Earthly Reign of our Lord Jesus, the Christ. All others are but fading shadows of His ultimate justice. As such, they have no right to advocate what is good or what is evil; but in the manner of the origination of this Federal Republic to help preserve and promote the maximum liberty of all.

We advocate for the freedom of each person to live according to his conscience, and to preach the word of God that some may come to know Him. In this we serve our God, and those he came to save.