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Intellectual Integrity of Pro Aborts

Posted by KsReaganite on Saturday, July 08, 2006 2:31:27 AM
 

I believe in the sanctity of innocent human life from conception to natural death without ifs, ands, buts. Yet,  I have a grudging respect for those who are openly, fervently, and unabashedly pro-abortion rights. Their opinion stands the scrutiny of intellectual integrity since these folks honestly do not consider the unborn child to be a human being. That being the case, it is only consistent to be ardently in favor of defending a person's bodily autonomy.

That kind of integrity is a far cry from the liberal Catholic (or most kind of liberal Christian) political operative who starts off by claiming how he is 'personally opposed' to abortion and tearfully goes on to proclaim his 'personal' belief that it is the taking of a life. But, alas, he proclaims, he cannot force his morality on the rest of the country and therefore he must with all the hesitation in his heart genuflect to the cash cows at NOW and Planned Parenthood. The absurdity of the 'personally opposed' claim is evident to everyone with minimal logic: if you think it is the taking of a life, what are you doing standing silently while a murder is committed?? And if you do not think it is a life, why are you lying about supposedly believing it is a life??

The fact is that we, liberal and conservative alike, impose our morality on society every day and do so legally. Kicking the living daylights out of a lazy spouse or murdering the noisy neighbor may be quite acceptable in some moral frameworks, but those actions are considered immoral by many of us and hence punished under the color of law. Providing part of our tax dollars to helping the needy is a legal obligation precisely because many in our society believe that we are morally obligated to do so. You do not see the left-liberal crowd having fits over imposing that aspect of morality on the rest of us, do you? Heck, even Dr. Howard Dean was waxing eloquently about the moral obligation of helping the poor!

One can have several intellectually honest reasons for supporting abortion or gay 'marriage'. A self-righteous indignation about imposing morality, however, is not one of those reasons.

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A Matter of Trust

Posted by KsReaganite on Friday, July 07, 2006 4:29:03 PM
 

Should a politician’s sexual life be off-limits?

I don’t give a hoot who a candidate sleeps with. Or how many people are involved with a candidate in debauched Caligullan orgies on a nightly basis. What I do intensely care about, be it in a politician or any other person who holds a position of trust, is the individual’s trustworthiness. Call me simple minded and childish, but as I see it, someone who breaches the most solemn trust of all, that of being faithful to one’s spouse, is not exactly the person I can trust. And it’s hardly a private matter…unless you were married in secret and nobody in the world knew about it!

Public service, be it holding an office or teaching our kids, is not a matter of mere competence or managerial expertise. We trust our dear state, our beloved country, our precious children to these public servants. Would I want to trust my flag or my child with someone who has shown a remarkable ability to breach a trust when the going gets tough? I don’t know about you, but I will find it very difficult, if not impossible to do so.

Adultery (what our politically correct hearts call indiscretion, infidelity, cheating, affairs etc) is less a matter of sex and far more a question of trust. Less is it about morality and far more about ethics. A person engaging in such conduct sends out the message that personal fulfillment is far more important to him than a publicly undertaken trust. His narcissism triumphs over his obligations. He may be a very competent person and I have no problem watching him play baseball or run the local bait shop. But trust him with the care of my country, community, or children?

I don’t think so. Thanks, but no, thanks!

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New York, New York

Posted by KsReaganite on Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:00:27 PM
 Even the bluest of the blue, New York's highest court, has discovered that marriage is between one man and one woman! Gotta give them credit. That said, one of the surprise discoveries I did make sometime ago was that the Empire State, as liberal as it is, also has the strongest protection for existing marriages: it is the only state in the Union which does not allow one spouse to unilaterally end a marriage without a reason. In all other states, including Utah, Mississipi, and Alabama (the reddest of the red), a spouse can decide to end a marriage unilaterally for something as trivial as 'wanting to find myself'.
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Welcome

Posted by KsReaganite on Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:55:37 PM
 

Welcome to my blog! In the ensuing weeks I hope to share with you my humble insights and perspectives about why this land is indeed, what the first Republican president called, “the last best hope” for humanity. I have often been accused of having the intense zeal of a convert in that I am an American by choice. That is a charge to which I gladly plead guilty. It is not that there is nothing wrong with the United States. There is, and plenty of it. But at least here, unlike so many other societies, we can dissent and try to change things without being jailed and physically tortured. And that is what so many of us conservatives have been doing steadily and patiently for two and a half decades to undo the immense harm that the left-liberal cabal has done to our vitals ever since the Second World War.

Thanks for reading.

God be with you and may He continue to bless America!

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