But everyone didn't care because they had temporarily forgotten the horrors of slavery. Normally the father's rights would come first. But this is an extraordinary case. Elias' mama died trying to find freedom . . . Cuba recently has been declared one of the worst offenders against human rights by the United Nations.
Interesting parallels cause one to think . . .
The central message of biblical Christianity is the possibility of men and women approaching God through the work of Christ. But the message also has secondary results, among them the unusual and wide freedoms which biblical Christianity gave to countries where it supplied the consensus. When these freedoms are separated from the Christian base, however, they become a force of destruction leading to chaos. At that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are only two roads to the same end.