Posted on 11/17/2004 12:04:04 PM PST by NorCoGOP
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The election aftermath rolls on and on.
Angry losers are generating all-new conspiracy theories about how Bush and Karl Rove and the Illuminati stole the presidency again.
They proclaim the president doesn't have a "mandate" because not enough people voted for him, and denounce his supporters as stupid, ignorant and worst of all, religious bigots.
Ah, more pre-fabricated leftover TV dinners of radical rants stuck in the microwave to re-warm.
However, this time they've added another old side-dish argument: "You're a hypocrite!"
That's right -- more residents of the Bush-voting states are hypocrites, according to a New York Times News Service article that was featured in the Sunday Lexington Herald-Leader.
Headline: More Divorce in Red States.
Subtext: Kentucky and Bible Belt among highest of all.
Sub-subtext: You hypocritical fundamentalist freaks in the South!
I won't waste time yelling at The New York Times for having a liberal bias. It's part of the great, established order of the universe: The Earth revolves around the sun, pi equals 3.14159, and The New York Times is liberal. Why ask it to be anything else?
But this "article" is unadulterated -- pun unintended -- pure, giddy liberalism in the guise of straight news. Ha! You of the great moral values, the lead cackles, "Why are divorce rates so low in the bluest of the blue states?"
After all, "the areas of the country where divorce rates are highest are also often the areas where many conservative Christians live."
No kidding! For years, scores of Christian authors, speakers, pastors and organizations have been pointing out with dismay that the divorce rates of churchgoers are the same as those of the rest of the world. Their message has been, "What's going on here? We are supposed to be about strong families, strong faith and moral principles -- shape up, people!"
And just exactly what have those morally superior liberals done to help?
Not much. For decades social liberal interests have sought to undermine and redefine the family structure.
And many compromising "churchians" -- and true Christians, who are flawed human beings too -- have gone right along with the lies. First, researcher Alf Kinsey (the subject of a glorifying new movie) hacked the notion of marital intimacy and monogamy to shreds and claimed in "scientific" tables that even infants were "sexual" from birth.
Next came humanitarians like Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt, who thought it would be cool to exploit and market women as objects.
Then we had that whole "free love" thing in the '60s, simultaneous with rising divorce rates.
That trend came right along with assurances from competent professionals that children could surely cope with divorce and it wouldn't hurt families that much, and it certainly wouldn't hurt your family.
What a great recipe for social success: Exacerbate the conditions for family breakup and divorce, lie to everyone that it's not so bad, it's not going to hurt you personally.
Reverberate the message across America, targeting everyone. Sit back, view results, smile happily.
Thirty years later, call the people who have bought completely into your message hypocrites for listening to the lies! (If they didn't listen, call them stupid.)
And what happens with faith-based, pro-family groups come along to try to repair the damage caused by liberals undermining the family structure?
Why, sneer at them too, of course.
Liberals detest Christian psychologist James Dobson and Focus on the Family, which includes strengthening whole families as part of its mission statement.
And remember the Promise Keepers, who held all kinds of rallies and marches encouraging men to get their acts together, respect women and raise their children consistently? Well, liberals and feminists hated them!
They're also none too fond of the Scripture itself, which sets out the rules on divorce: In summary, don't try it.
Although Jesus Christ did make allowances for divorce in case of unrepentant infidelity, God says no divorce -- along with no making up your own god, no lying, no stealing, honor your parents and a few other rules many contend should never be seen in school or in court.
And there it is again -- another liberal logical paradox. Secular liberals insist those rules are disrespectful of other faiths and so intolerant, so they throw out the morals and the God who gives them, along with the whole notion of "absolute truth" anyway.
Then from where are they getting the rule that says people should not be hypocrites?
With minimal effort the Hellish Hypocrisy Rant backfires comically on itself.
But without a fixed standard for truth, moral absolutes and even simply consistency, what else should we expect?
FTCF PING
There's hope for libLexington.
Go Cats!
The divorce rate "study" is based on divorces per capita, not divorces per marriage. States with smaller populations and a higher percentage of marriages per capita, as those in red fly-over country, will naturally have a higher percentage of divorces per capita. It's simple math, and the liberals are playing games with it. States with larger urban populations have fewer marriages per capita, since marriage is more of a traditionalist red state sort of thing. Many urbanites just forgo marriage altogether these days.
The fact that more people in places like New York, california, and Massachusetts are co-habitating and having children out of wedlock, pursuing "polyamorous" lifestyles and the like does not make a good case for them being more "moral."
Anyways, divorce is not considered "immoral" by anyone except for Catholics. It's the same sort of false argument leveled against Bill Bennet to discredit him because he likes to gamble. Last time I checked, plenty of church groups have bingo, lotteries, and raffles.
Wow, I'm impressed that the young ones get it too. Very good article.
I promise to learn how to post links....soon!
Yes, there is hope now that the liberals have gone TOTALLY OFF THE DEEP END with their anti-American, anti-morals hatred. Anything that has to do with ANY FORM OF VALUES be it religous, be it in good principle, be it THE LAW, whatever....they CANNOT FACE VALUES! It is totally against their core belief system....
I heard it best put today that the liberal system of measurement always gets back to money and big government control...as opposed to the right, where VALUES ARE THE CORE of their fundamental beliefs. That says it all really. And it is true.
This is best exemplified in the recent election where KERRY HAD TO SPEND HIS CAMPAIGN LYING ABOUT WHO AND WHAT HE WAS... while GWB just simply restated his non-changing core beliefs. And look at what happened. This country does not need or want the far-left. And the left is finally figuring that out and they have no idea what to do about it, except panic and go crazy....
BTW, do you have a link to the research study the NYT used to prove the divorce rate is greater in KY than NY? I find it very hard to believe.
You are exactly right.
There is s good explanation for this, you know. In the Bible Belt, they still have shotgun weddings. There are still places left where it is socially undesirable to be an unwed mother or to have one as a daughter. A lot of those marriages end in divorce. In the Blue states, these women never even bother to get married, so there are no divorces. I'm sure there is a very low divorce rate in North Philly and Harlem, because nobody there gets married in the first place. They just download the babies and raise them alone.
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