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— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) August 31, 2013
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.
Who says that conversion therapy doesn’t work?
OH, I know. Militant gays who are opposed to letting people have any choice about how they want to live.
Caligula himself was the inspiration for whole books and movies on the subject.
Go fuck yourself, asshole.
Personally I don’t think there’s anything wrong with gay marriage UP TO THE POINT where they force other people to condone it.
But you don’t recognize that, because you’re not willing to let other people practice THEIR freedom of religion.
So go fuck yourself with a chainsaw, sideways.
Says the person who doesn’t want to respond to someone with legitimate concerns.
Go fuck yourself, troll.
Again, insulting someone without actual basis.
I’d respond to you if you didn’t resort to calling people names.
Lubricating the Slippery Slope: The Intellectual Astroglide of the Elite http://t.co/pEJyF7AWCu Excellent article.
Troll.
Says the jackwagon that JUST NOW called someone else a troll.
After reading what “sodomy” is, I have to say I have been mistaken. I have made a mistake. “Sodomy” is bestiality; I thought it was clearly something else.
In any case I’ve already stated my stance. You are free to ignore my comments if you wish.
You have no idea what collectivism actually means, assclown.
No recovery, whether it be reducing the size and reach of government or a return to traditional social and cultural issues, is going to happen without collapse. Let it burn.
THIS.
Idiots like you give libertarianism a bad name. You’re just a fool, not a libertarian. Libertarians respect everyone’s freedom, not just their own and the people they like.
It would be helpful to ask instead of just posting things that make no sense.
i.e. “Do you believe in gay marriage?” rather than “So, you believe in gay marriage.” The first is question, the latter is a statement of fact. I have stated nothing about gay marriage that would lead to such a statement of fact.
What I support is privacy. The privacy to do something in one’s home, without having other people judge them for it. For example, if I want to smoke cigarettes in my home, and I owned the home, I should be able to smoke them in my own home. The same goes for sexual acts: if someone wants to have sex with someone else in their home, and the other person consents, they should be able to do that.
The only instance in which I would say “it’s not okay” is if it is deliberately harming another person, i.e. injuring or killing them. For example, I do not support bestiality because A) animals cannot consent and B) people have died from bestiality.
Spoken only as someone who has no clue what’s inside it could speak.
Hmmm. You do have a point there. However, not all gay people are intolerant, though many are. For example, I visited a LGBT meeting at my college; however, I found there that even though most of the people were gay, they had different views. Some are more peaceful and pacifying. Others are what I call “militant gays”: they portray sexuality as their “be all end all” for identification, and will do anything, including violence and hate acts, to get what they feel they deserve.
I believe that these “militant gays” have, unfortunately, taken over the gay rights movement. They feel hatred is an acceptable response to hatred, and violence to violence.
If you want to see gay ‘tolerance’, ask them about bisexuals.
As a general rule gays are less tolerant of bis than straight people are.
NeoWayland wrote: Except Western Civilization predated “the Church.”
Actually no, it didn’t. If I were forced to pick a specific day when Western Civilization was born [I know there was no one day it just came to be, but speaking symbolically] it would be 25 December 800 when Pope Leo crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor. I declare this because Western Civilization has always been known by a second name: Christendom.
Well-said.
I did, but I generally steer clear of those venues now because many of them are over-zealous, rude, disrespectful, and downright shoddy in terms of treatment of others.
I just can’t understand how such people who claim to preach acceptance and want understanding and sympathy can do such things that would garner them the exact opposite. Take, for example, the Hunt case. If Hunt is really a lesbian [though I don’t think that she’s gay at all, just manipulative], then why would she be doing such horrible things?
It makes no sense.
Nothing in my comment is a lie as far as I can tell. Non of it is “talking points” just simple, honest truths. Playing in traffic seems unsafe…
No, the scientific and medical community agree that conversion therapy does not work and causes more harm than good. In the 40 years it has been attempted it has no proven results. Exodus, the leading organization that provided conversion therapy has shut down after 30 years claiming the therapy is ineffective and has caused harm to the gay community which they apologized for. SORRY! YOu have no idea what the f you are talking about!
I don’t want to be your friend, fuckface. I just want to shove your nose in your own shit and show you what an ignorant fuck you are on this issue.
Gays are somewhere between 3 and 5 % of population. I do not see how letting them be married and generally accepting their relationships will put a dent in the birth rate, end the human race, or discourage them from raising children by adoption/artificial means.
I have to say that I never did understand the visceral reaction some people have when gay rights are mentioned. Has the growing acceptance of gays changed your life in any way?
I don’t give a shit if you want to get don your knees every sunday and worwship the sky god, ok? Just keep your fucking religion out of my face because if you don’t we have a problem my friend.
So that’s how you avoid dealing with a smackdown. ‘My brain is frozen in’ Amber?
Let me try one:
Leftist dyke.
How’d I do?
No, it hasn’t in any way, shape, or form. They’re just a group of disturbed, hateful people, that reasonable folk have had to deal with for millennia.
A capital ‘L’ Libertarian does not mean one is a member of the party of the same name, it means one subscribes to an Ideology. You, sir, are an Ideologue and, therefore, your belief system is just as dangerous as Leftism.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
Funny you call me a jackwagon when I’ve just responded to your other posts…
I can call someone else a troll if I wish. They are free to respond accordingly.
Ancient civilizations had pederasty, not homosexuality in the modern sense which didn’t really exist until mid 19th century. Gay weddings are near to non-existent in the historical record.
As for the rest of what you wrote, I do not buy into this far fetched construct, seems like a giant stretch to justify your point. Any scientific data to back any of this?
Ah! A philistine speaketh.
I’d say, JA, that you’re using Ad Hominem. Unfortunately, I do not respond fully to posters who use Ad Hominem.
I like debate and discuss. What I do not like are people using irrelevant comments to attack others.
I’m not gay fuckhead, it just has no effect on me personally if people want to engage in homosexual behavior or marry. If it has an effect on your personal life then I would have to assume that you have serious personal problems and are overly concerned about other people’s sexual habits.
Wrong again, Ms. Head Trauma.
Pop quiz (and no help from Google or any other search engine, Amber (I’m an historical illiterate) Goldsmith: to which of the Founding Fathers is the following quote attributed?:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
I can do this one all night long, if you have a hankerin’ to be dope slapped.
If you mean, ” A philistine person is the man or woman who is smugly narrow of mind and of conventional morality whose materialistic views and tastes indicate an indifference toward cultural and æsthetic values,” then no, I do not consider myself such.
John Adams. I’ve seen that one before.
I’m Jeffersonian myself.
That means that I can call you an historically, socially, politically and culturally ignorant twat.
Right?
If you wish, but I am also free to respond accordingly.
Also, however, I would encourage you not to. Instead, I would suggest you post something thoughtful in response.
You’re full of shit, unless you mean that you graduated (grade inflation, I’ll bet) from a high school named ‘Jefferson’.
This country was NOT founded to be a secular republic.
So you’re either lying or you’re simply moronic.
Which is it?
Go fuck yourself sideways with a chainsaw, troll. Take your bullshit to some place like dKos where you’ll get patted on the back and told how clever you are, because your shit doesn’t fly here.
Do you even know what a Jeffersonian is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_democracy
There is one trait that is condemned uniformly in all cultures, and that is the hypocrite.
Congratulations, you’ve proven yourself a member of that most reviled class.
Whoosh, that went right over your head. The ‘scare quotes’ are a common literary device to point out something that is in fact its opposite.
Says the hypocrite that is calling other people trolls.
So have you. No one is free from making mistakes once in a while. However, you choose to ignore what I have legitimately posted.
Why do you seek to insult and not to respond with actual substance, Finrod? I am more than willing to answer questions.
Every troll thinks that, idiot.
Tell it to the New Mexico photographer that got sued because they didn’t want to photograph a gay wedding, troll.