Lubricating the Slippery Slope: The Intellectual Astroglide of the Elite

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Few are willing to admit the truth, namely that our cultural elite have abandoned the truth — but that is putting it too mildly.

Our cultural elite, of which the editors of the Washington Post and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are members, have not only abandoned the truth, but have declared war on truth, and have dedicated themselves to the advancement of falsehood.

People saw this coming and sounded a warning. Judith Reisman was one of them, and Robert Knight was another. In 2000, Knight published The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture, addressing the philosophical roots of our current mess. You should also read Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education by Philip E. Johnson.

Whether or not you follow my reading recommendations, the bottom line is this: Good luck with this “secular conservatism” thing.

It ain’t gonna work, and if the history of the past 10 years or so haven’t convinced you that embracing secularism is doom for conservatism — and, ultimately, for the American republic — I’m sure the next 10 years will, but by then there will be nothing left worth conserving. And we’re probably doomed already.

Paul Weyrich — he totally saw it. A nation that would let President Clinton lie his way through the Lewinsky scandal, and accept all those flimsy rationalizations in his defense . . . Doomed.

There was a sort of post-9/11 bubble of Republican popularity that lasted four or five years, but by 2006, that was completely gone. Then in 2008 somehow, that backstabbing crapweasel John McCain got the Republican nomination and . . . Doomed.

Well, the Tea Party uprising of 2009-2010 was encouraging, but then 2012 came along and, once again . . . Doomed.

How are you feeling about 2014, Republicans? What about 2016?

Exactly: Doomed.

Basically, the enemy got inside the perimeter. The bombardment of liberal propaganda convinced both the Republican Party elite and leading figures of the conservative intelligentsia that all those hillbilly Bible-thumpers were, on balance, a detriment to the GOP’s political prospects, so shut up, Sarah Palin, shut up Michele Bachmann, shut up Rick Santorum and anyone else who doesn’t applaud gay marriage as  enthusiastically as Rachel Maddow and Andrew Sullivan.

Way to go, Republican elite! You saved your reputation as sophisticated, tolerant, enlightened intellectuals and you are . . . Doomed.

The revolutionary turning point is now in your rear-view mirror, and you’re all Vichy Republicans, negotiating with the radical Left the terms of your collaboration with their progressive agenda. In November 2008, I explained where we were heading:

The Lawrence ruling was the culmination of what Justice Antonin Scalia called “a 17-year crusade” to overturn the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision (which had upheld Georgia’s sodomy statute) and, as Scalia noted in his dissent, the Court’s “emerging awareness” argument was a disingenuous way to avoid actually declaring a “fundamental right” to sodomy. The legal effect was the same, however, and Lawrence was repeatedly cited in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision five months later mandating the legalization of gay marriage in that state. . . .
Gay activists do not construe their “rights” in terms of liberty, but in terms of radical and absolute equality. They insist that same-sex relationships are identical to — entirely analogous to and fungible with — traditional marriage.
Common sense resists this assertion, perceiving something fundamentally false in the gay marriage argument. Yet it seems common-sense resistance can only be justified by resort to religious faith, through the understanding that men are “endowed by their Creator” with rights. Eliminate the Creator from discussion, and it becomes impossible to refute the activists’ indignant demand for equality. . . .

You could read the whole thing — if you’re an ignorant hillbilly Bible-thumper like Justice Antonin Scalia. Perhaps you could also confront the reality that we have weighed anchor, sailed off into uncharted waters without a compass, and are now badly adrift in those regions of the ancient maps marked “Here Be Dragons.”

 

The Lawrence decision stopped just short of declaring a “fundamental right” to sodomy, but they might as well have gone all the way (if you’ll pardon the phrase) because we see how Justice Kennedy struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act as though no law prior to the “emerging awareness” had any validity at all. In 2003, the Supreme Court decreed that Texas had no authority to prohibit sodomy. Ten years later, the Supreme Court decreed that Congress itself could not deny recognition to same-sex marriage, and anyone shocked by the hasty destruction of what Chief Justice Warren Burger called “millennia of moral teaching” — well, shut up, haters.

Family Terrorized as Michigan Teachers
Support Colleague Who Molested Boy

 

Girl Commits Suicide; Rapist
Teacher Gets Just 30 Days in Jail

Only one of these stories was important enough to gain national attention outside of the right-wing media. Why? Because in the Michigan case, the teacher molested a boy. It was a gay thing, and only Bible-thumping hillbillies are against male teachers having gay sex with 14-year-old boys. By contrast, the other case involved a man having sex with a 14-year-old girl, so feminists were upset.

Heard any feminist upset about Kaitlyn Hunt dildoing a 14-year-old? Of course not: Feminists are all about supporting teenage lesbians, and to hell with those hateful puritanical age-of-consent laws.

“It was a quiet ceremony. Elizabeth Miklosovic had an outdoor wedding in June 2004 in Michigan’s Manistee National Forest, where the couple lit candles and exchanged vows. Miklosovic’s marriage lasted only a few months, however. Later that year, the mother of the bride found out that her daughter had, at age 13, become the lesbian ‘wife’ of Miklosovic, who had been the girl’s language arts teacher at Baseline Middle School in South Haven, Michigan. For some reason, state law did not recognize the legitimacy of Miklosovic’s pagan lesbian marriage, and she was convicted of felony sex offenses and sentenced to prison.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “Sexual Anarchy: Progress, Perversion and the ‘Emerging Awareness’ Doctrine,” The American Spectator, June 26

Who knows whither the “emerging awareness” shall henceforth emerge? Certainly I can make no predictions, and it’s hard to imagine the series of court rulings or legislative action by which lesbian child brides could become a legal “right.” On the other hand, a lot of things that once were hard to imagine are happening every day of the week now. The Washington Post column defending student-teacher sex for instance, seemed like a tasteless joke:

All my current friends are 14-year-old girls. We have pool parties and sometimes we massage each other. . . .
Me and my 14-year-old jailbait posse are sick of society looking askance at our Forbidden Love.

No, that’s not from a Washington Post column, that’s Ace of Spades brutally mocking the column, which is funny as hell — the mockery, I mean, not the column itself, which is scary as hell, because editors had to approve that column, edit it, add a headline and put it on the page. And at no point during this process did any employee of the Washington Post look at that column and say, “Hey, wait a minute. This is not just badly written and badly argued, but it’s also grossly offensive and even arguably perverted.” Quoting myself again:

The world is full of idiots with bad ideas and the editors of the Washington Post are obligated to publish only the very worst of them. One cannot reform such institutions as the Washington Post and the New York Times, but can only pray for their well-deserved destruction, because their wicked depravity is not accidental.
The publishers are amoral monsters, their editors are active agents of evil, and their deliberate policy is to employ no honest or decent person. Nor could any honest or decent person ever wish to be associated with publications whose daily business is the destruction of Western civilization. A Christian would no more desire to be published by the Washington Post than to work in an abortion clinic or a bordello. It is a disgraceful stain on the conscience of our nation.

Of course, the editors of the Washington Post are totally pro-abortion — and probably also pro-prostitution, if the truth were known — so exactly why should they be offended by an argument in defense of teachers having sex with their 14-year-old students?

Sure, let’s make fun of the Washington Post, but their editors seriously believe that a woman’s most important “right” is killing her own babies, and if people can believe that, what immoral monstrosity won’t they endorse? At some point, Republicans must either summon the courage to speak the truth — sorry, we’re not going to call you “Chelsea Manning,” you despicable traitor — or else stop pretending that they have any actual disagreements with Democrats.

Do Reince Priebus or John Boehner or Mitch McConnell have any plan at all to halt this headlong descent into lawless perversion?

“Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with adults. Pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society. Sex with kids is tainted by a “cultural baggage of wrongfulness.”

People need to wake the hell up.

This Weimar decadence is very bad. What comes after the decadence is likely to be worse, and if you listen closely you can almost hear the sound of hobnailed boots marching over broken glass.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Weird to get a ‘lanche four years after I published this, but today I searched for when I first used the sentence, “People need to wake the hell up,” and here were are, eh? The election of Donald Trump, the recent street violence involving white supremacists and left-wing “antifa” radicals — yes, it seems my prophetic warnings from 2013 are being fulfilled.

A nation that has abandoned religion and morality (e.g., “Thou shalt not kill”) must sooner or later pay the price for its decadence, although it’s difficult to predict what form the consequences might take. For example, why should sexual deviance give rise to racial hostility? This connection doesn’t seem obvious, but nevertheless the perversity that flourished in Weimar Germany was followed by the ascent of a Nazi regime that murdered not only Jews, but also Poles, gypsies and other “untermenschen.” While it seems unlikely that any such thing could happen in America, who can predict the future? Just a few years ago, did anyone expect we’d be confronted in 2017 with transgenderism as a “mainstream” issue? When you’re off the map and deep into the “Here Be Dragons” territory, it’s hard to know what to expect next.



 

447 comments

  2. No, Western civilization as we know it did not predate the Church. Prior to the Church was the Roman Empire, and German tribes. The Empire was built on blood, slavery, and rigidity of thought and action; and, it survived on blood, slavery, and conformance of thought and action. Our post-Christian culture today resembles the Roman Empire of the third century, Anno Domini. That didn’t end well for the Romans and their many consituent parts.
    The Church civilized Western Civilization.

  3. 2011 book (by Mass. conservative insider) warning Republicans on Mitt Romney’s social liberalism was ignored – even by “conservative” bloggers. See MITT ROMNEY’S DECEPTION.

  4. If what you claim is true and that homosexuality is simply a behavior problem like any other paraphilia then why does behavior modification via conversion therapy not work, nor has it ever, is such a spectacular failure as a form of therapy(not to mention destructive to the patient), and Exodus after decades of practicing it suddenly shut down and issued an apology to the gay community for the harm they caused?
    I think that you are simply, and this is putting it really mildly, biased(in reality you’re vehemently and disturbingly homophobic)and on the wrong side of the argument not to mention the tide has completely turned against you and others like you culturally, politically, and legally. Furthermore, you have zero proof to sustain your argument meanwhile those of us on the other side have the constant failure to convert gays to a heterosexual orientation with therapy, which if you were correct and homosexuality is nothing more than a behavior problem would produce at least some positive results. Then there’s just simple observation that shows that homosexuality has a physiological basis and it’s traits(“butchiness” in females and effeminate manners in men) can be perceived in children even before they are sexually aware and still in their latency period.
    I wonder if you’ve ever known a single homosexual either or are related to any. Ask just about any family that is and they will always say we “always knew” or suspected he or she was gay since they were very young. Perhaps the latter is just simple intuition and can’t be defined by hard science but that doesn’t means it’s false. And you don’t think with the second class status and animus that a large portion of society shows toward gays that they would just switch off their desire for same sex partners if they could? The reason they don’t is because they can’t and to repeat a new but well worn cliché, they are “born that way”.

  5. Inspire yourself to do what? Try and legislate your personal view of sexual morality between two consenting adults and based on Christian teachings? Good luck with that!

  6. I think we are closer to 1790 than 1928. I’m reading “The French Revolution” by Thomas Carlysle, and it is one of the best free books you can download. We have the 99%’rs as the sans-culottes, and liberals are playing the role of Jacobins. We just need to know where to setup the guillotine.

  7. There is a difference between what harms others like murder, rape, or robbery, and legislating morality when it comes to purely personal lifestyle decisions like drugs, sex, prostitution, etc. The government does not own your body so really has no legal right to tell you what you can and can’t do with it if it’s of no harm to others.

  8. Which proves what precisely? I can counter with 99% haven’t murdered anyone, and therefore they do follow the “moral teachings” of the Bible to use your quotes. Actually, I said that morality, whatever it is, comes from somewhere. Either it is transcendent or it is man-made. If it is the latter, it is changeable at the whim of him who has the most force. In any event, compliance with a set of ethics or a moral code bears no relation to its existence or truth.

  9. Exactly, and something missing in this discussion is the basic overriding laws of nature which genetically mandate that a culture procreate and protect their progeny or risk extinction. This isn’t a moral or legal decision. Those who advocate for same sex marriage and abortion would like the rest of us to ignore that it’s societal suicide rather than just a difference of opinion.

  10. What is with this fanatical obsession in our cultural elite with
    faggotry? It’s gone way beyond a request for tolerance, which most of
    us have at this point and has become ‘ram it down our throats at every
    occasion’. When any attempts at dialog are shut down with screams of “Hater!!!”, don’t be surprised when pushback happens.

  11. That’s where they have won. They are teaching our children that fire does not burn, 2 + 2 does not equal 4, overpopulation is destroying the planet, you have the “right” to act like or become whatever sex you choose regardless of the number of x y chromosomes you were born with. It’s not just rewriting history and science, but to follow their path you must dismiss both entirely.

  13. Heh. Explain to me the virtues of sodomy …
    It is a biological imperative that sodomy is a violation of natural law, not man’s invented law, the laws that sets that biological imperative in motion. The penis is not designed for an anus (which is designed for elimination of waste products). The vagina was designed as the proper and natural place for a penis, being the place of sexual pleasure and reproduction.
    So, tell me again how sodomy is natural and beneficial?

  14. This article is really sad.

    What exactly is this “cultural elite” that is forcing homosexuality on us? Last I checked the majority of Americans supported gay marriage, that is why it won 4 out of 4 referendums last election. Of those that oppose gay marriage, many support civil unions and pretty much everything else but marriage. People that have a strong disdain for homosexuality are a shrinking minority. This change is occurring at grassroots level, not being forced on us by some elite. Only the old, the uneducated, the religious extremists continue to have a problem with gays.

    You association of homosexuality with pedophilia is disgusting and immoral. There is no connection except in the heads of those that seek to hurt gay people.

    As for Judith Reisman, she is an utter nut. She wants pornography banned because of some half baked theory about “erototoxins” in the brain. She says gays were the founders of Nazism and executioners of the Holocaust, that gays actively recruit new gays via pedophilia, and that a man cannot be raped. She is basically an introverted version of Fred Phelps. Her books are merely a window into a broken mind obsessed with sex.

  17. That is why we identify our society as depraved and immoral.
    You made the case for us, too bad you deny God, for if deny Him, there is but one other master to follow, wittingly or unwittingly.

  20. When have you ever heard such unadulterated bullshit in your life? Nature has a problem with gays. Even baboons and salmon are aware that if they do not procreate they will simply become another extinct species. Even they are intelligent enough not to murder their young. What is so damned intelligent about advocating cultural suicide? Majority, my ass!

  21. How is it a false premise, shithead? If it’s nothing more than a mental problem as you claim why is conversion therapy and therapy in general, consistently a failure in turning homosexuals into heterosexuals and one of the leading organizations that used conversion therapy decided to close down and an issue an apology? Perhaps because you’re wrong? Nice the way you ever tried to address the question, you evangelical turd, and that’s because you know as well as I do that you have no answer and that homosexuality is just a biological variant and not a paraphilia. Face it, you’re a disturbed homophobe who needs is looking to do nothing more than demonize what scares you.

  22. No, it’s not. You’re a paranoid nutjob who buys into the twisted mentality(which just reflects your own)of other paranoid nutjobs. Your days are over. The tide has turned against you and you are now drowning. Good riddance, scumbag.

  23. Yeah, we’re advocating “cultural suicide” by allowing a minority certain rights that don’t effect the majority or the natural order in the slightest. Do you really believe that allowing gay marriage is going to make everyone gay? LOLOLOLOL! You’re either gay or you’re not you fucking moron! gays will continue to be a small minority regardless of whether or not they have new civil rights asshead. Sad that we constantly have to drag ignorant reactionaries kicking and screaming into the future.

  24. It’s not about the bedroom. It’s about our government institutionalizing the behavior. In what way does that strengthen our society?

    Preserving an orderly society doesn’t have to be based on religious beliefs but there is much in religious text which has little other purpose than to be a instructional on how to coexist?

    Thou shalt not steal. You don’t have to believe in an after life to understand why thievery would be disruptive to our society. Do you?

    So you approve gay marriage.
    How about polygamy?
    Incest, Amber? Shall we allow brother and sister to wed? Bestiality? We eat’em, why can’t we screw’em?

    On what basis would you deny the public acceptance of any of these behaviors?

    Social order. Our children have to grow up in this cultural garbage. Allowing people to do as they please isn’t conducive to the health of our society. This shit is like second hand smoke.

    Second hand smoke? Can I be any clearer?

  25. I’m guessing Sodom and Gomorrah had better standards than much of our “emerging awareness” crowd today. It’s unfortunate that God chose to cut short their suicidal march over that self-made cliff to their own destruction. It seems the common sense lesson in the Bible, like so many others, was lost simply because of their disdain for the messenger.

  26. There is no biological imperative for oral sex either or S&M, cross dressing, foot fetishes and a whole host of harmless fetishes but people like them. Are you actually saying the government should regulate how two ADULTS give and receive pleasure? LOL! That would be tyranny. The government doesn’t own your body and really has o legal right to tell you what you can and cant put in it. They have already over stepped their authority when it comes to drugs. And honestly, does it really ruin your day because someone wants shove their cock up someone else’s ass whether they are male or female? Get a grip. People have been getting their freak on for centuries and erotic cultures like ancient Greece and Rome are also the most prosperous and progressive while puritanical(see the dark ages)are the least prosperous and inventive. You, you sad bastard, are an advocate of a wicked kind of collectivism.

  29. Too bad you make assumptions and judgement about people you don’t know. If you followed Christianity, you would know that one can judge others but God.

    I also find it hypocritical that one would blindly follow a religion, but question the Hunts. I do not believe the Hunts are truthful, nor do I support them; but neither do I support those who choose not to question that which can be questionable.

    According to the Puritans, they committed the Sale, Witch Trials “according to God’s word”. According to the Crusaders, they committed the Crusades “according to God’s word”. Not to question the “word of God” is not to question these historical atrocities as well.

  30. What an outstanding and much needed article. Stacy, you’ve outdone yourself on this one! But I do think you’re going to need to give Wombat a raise and a vacation, a lot more bandwidth, extra innings…..a sequel. Something. Keep exposing the nerves and bringing the debate.

  32. Sir, you are making assumptions and judgements about me, a person you do not know. I never said that I supported anything you are ascribing to me. You are putting words into my mouth for me.

  33. Also, sir, I would encourage you not to use profanity to describe certain things. I personally believe in being thoughtful and respectful. I choose to respectfully disagree with you on this matter.

    The law is clear on issues of privacy. I did not speak of any of the issues you brought up, except for sodomy. Sodomy is not an issue exclusive to homosexual behavior; anyone of any sexuality can engaged in sodomy, at their own risk. It is a practice that is commonplace nowadays, but not practiced by all. Nor is it exclusively religious, though some would say the Bible says it is “immoral” to practice sodomy at all.

    Yet sodomy is very widely practiced in today’s Western culture. What does that tell you about our society? To me, it shows that the morality of 2,000 years ago to today has drastically shifted.

  34. You’re a moron, Amber.
    If I have to read one more asshole like you mangle the biblical admonition about ‘not judging’, I think I’ll puke.
    Get this straight, dumbshit: the Bible does not say, ANYWHERE, that a Christian is not supposed to judge.
    It says that you are not supposed to judge using any set of standards that you are not willing to be judged by yourself.
    Got it?

  35. Our children are being propagandized in their schools. You cannot dismiss the cultural impact. This is not about something private in some bedroom.

  36. In every known culture that was famously tolerant of homosexuality (Ancient Greece, Dynastic China, Feudal Japan, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Polynesia being among the best known.) the practice of pederasty was the typical, normative, and idealised expression of homosexual behaviour…

    Given the diverse and atypical behaviours to which the homosexual is reduced in order to achieve sexual gratification (since homosexuals cannot actually engage in sexual intercourse with one another), he/she is far too often drawn to the naivity, pliability, and subservience of youth to find a compatible sex partner! “Tops” far outnumber “bottoms” in the gay community, and older “submissive” gays are objects of scorn and derision within that community… It is a poorly kept secret from where the deficit is expected to be made up!

  39. If you are offended by a pair of 10 dollar words that means “hopelessly short sighted”, you are a Special Snow Flake™ and shouldn’t be on the INTERNET at all.

    And if you are just trying to deflect criticism by pretending to be a victim of Needless Offense™? That makes you a concern troll.

    Either way, that’s an sincere question, and deserves an honest answer.

  40. History has proven you wrong. You’re not winning anything.
    You’re dragging the rest of us into your sewer so you can feel better about yourself and your sickness.
    We won’t drown because we will have families that care about us and will sustain us.
    For the most part, after a certain age, Homosexuals don’t. You’re parents die and you have no long term associates. Only other predators and sickos. Once you reach a certain age, no one will want you as you have nothing left to take. Then you will either die of disease or become a predator to be hunted and put down. Have a nice time.

  41. It won’t make everyone gay but the direction seems to be to make having any objection or opposite opinion will become a crime.

    Your so called rights do not include the right to require me to love you or what you do yet that is what you seek.

    You cannot legislate acceptance. You can only legislate fear of speaking ones mind.

  45. Bzzt, wrong answer, idiot. Insulting pretty much everyone that comes to this blog is not a way to Win Friends and Influence People, even those that aren’t SoCons.

  46. How wide is the practice? You cannot rely on the pronouncements of those who have a vested interest in inflating the numbers.

    It SEEMS that there’s more because in the tolerant civilization that has come to be, they have been allowed to speak out without fear of major retribution.

    Yet the first thing that gays seem to do is attack those who disagree with them and want THEIR rights taken away.

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