Posted on 05/28/2010 6:23:43 AM PDT by xzins
It's always good to get someone on record about their actual position. Such was the case last night with the ladies dubbed by Bill O'Reilly as "Culture Warriors", Gretchen Carlson and Juliet Huddy This time we weren't talking about Miley Cyrus on a pole or little dancing girls in stripper clothing.
Nope. We were confronted with issues of the day: abortion, homosexuality, capital punishment, and adultery.
Shields high, swords brandished, the culture warriors charged into the fray and....rolled over.
About abortion, we now know that "choice" is their preferred word and that "private matter" is as bold as they're going to get. Culture Warrior Courage Grade: F+
About adultery the ladies courageously sided with the overwhelming number of poll respondents who don't like it even a little bit. Glimmer of Hope Courage Grade: B
Regarding capital punishment there's the feeling from our Amazons that it will save litigation money, so siding with the general population in the poll, the ladies did OK, but we find warriorette reasoning a bit fuzzy, morally speaking. Courage of Conviction Grade: C-
Homosexuality revealed the ladies to be liberals of the "we haven't a clue what morality is" variety. Without reservation, they agreed that homosexuality is just fine. Courage of Understanding Grade: F-
In short, we can say that the "Culture Warriors" are pro-choice, pro-homosexuality, pro-pragmatism liberals. It's a bit sad, really. And not terribly courageous.
They don't realize that morality has to do with HARM, and that those things that harm the individual, the community, or the society are morally unacceptable.
The poor homosexual is having his life cut short by decades due to the harm of his behavior. The adulterer is killing the heart of others and turning his own into a narcissistic concrete shell. The society incapable of punishing murder with execution is demonstrating that it doesn't consider the harm of someone taking your life to be all that important.
Finally, those who would steal the life of our unborn posterity indicate that they really don't mind doing the harm of murder themselves, if that's what it takes. Quibbling over when "life" begins is the same as the stupid hunter who sees the brush move and having his partner say, "We don't know what it is; let's kill it anyway."
Culture Warriors surrendered last night. To the culture. To darkness.
The only reason they are “culture warriors” in the first place is because they are blonde and cute.
I was totally disgusted with both of them.
I quit listening to him when he starting praising 0.
Cute...perhaps. It’s a matter of taste.
Moral? I honestly don’t think they have a clue.
Bill who?
Gretchen who?
Juliet who?
I was shocked especially at Gretchen. Vey disappointing.
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You better be careful. You just might end up on my favorites list. Then you’ll get ping after ping after ping.
Shocked...me too. Like you, I was absolutely amazed how liberal that lady is.
“About abortion, we now know that “choice” is their preferred word and that “private matter” is as bold as they’re going to get.”
“About adultery the ladies courageously sided with the overwhelming number of poll respondents who don’t like it even a little bit.”
So abortion is a private matter but adultery is bad? Was there ever a time when liberalism made sense?
“Homosexuality revealed the ladies to be liberals of the “we haven’t a clue what morality is” variety. Without reservation, they agreed that homosexuality is just fine.”
Well then they are certainly not Christians. Maybe they are, but of the John Kerry/Nancy Pelosi model.
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Grunthor, I was shocked. If these two are any indication of what the ladies of Fox are like, then all I can say is “don’t expect a true conservative candidate to get a fair hearing.”
Well there is a reason that I don’t watch FOX anymore. I really don’t watch tv much at all anymore. When I move into my new home next month, I am considering not even having tv service.
I guess I’ll hang on to the TV.
Free Republic gives me the means to decipher the images that the TV puts out. Nothing like a neighborhood gathering chewing on something to get ideas about what it actually means.
I know who Gretchen is but the co blonde looked like one of FNC’s generics.
Bill O'reilly must be a pervert.He claims to be a culture warrior,
but instead promotes Soft Porn.
He doesn’t seem to pass up opportunities to show titillating reports, does he?
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