Posted on 01/02/2011 12:45:33 PM PST by HorowitzianConservative
Social conservatism has long allowed itself to be painted as bloodless, largely irrelevant political Protestantism; an alliance of Evangelicals who have climbed into bed with the most myopic fringe movements in America. At the same time we have allowed the Left to co-opt issues that are central to achieving the goals of social conservatism: maintaining the traditions and values of Western Civilization in general and America (the pinnacle of Western civilization) in particular. While we find a hundred different ways to disapprove of gays or pornography or the idea that someone, somewhere is enjoying themselves in ways we find unseemly, the Left has framed our language, attitudes and even our perception of issues much more important to preserving our way of life than the few issues on which social conservatives have made their voices heard.
Social conservatism cannot simply be about promoting one religion or political party. It must be about preserving America as the last bastion of the West. The Judeo-Christian character of America should be recognized and defended – as should the fact that the Judeo-Christian worldview is the product of Western history that extends back through the mists of time to ages when there were neither Jews or Christians. We cannot be a cultural movement based on Europhilia — the West at its height encompassed the known world and distilled the best of hundreds of cultures into the great stream of ideas that make up Western consciousness.
Social conservatism should promote and defend the great ideas of the West. We must stand for freedom, justice, faith, virtue, and honor. We should promote Western values as not just a birthright of people in the West but as light in a world of darkness.
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David,
Your new format where we have to click an advertisement laden page to get to the next paragraph in your articles really stinks.
I am a Roman Catholic who knows that the social conservative issues are the most important conservative issues of all.
How long will God bless our country if we continue to kill babies, and turn our backs on all of God’s laws?
If you read the whole article, LOTS of stuff in there many freepers will disagree with.
An odd statement. This takes us back a good deal more than 3000 years, and I'm unclear what historical continuity he could be referencing.
I suspect number of clicks is the reason almost every article is now about the ten (or four, six, etc.) of something.
Gets very old as a format, even when the article covers good material. Not every topic lends itself to David Letterman’s Top 10.
Yup. He'd be fast friends with Rove. Our problem isn't that we didn't produce enough conservative artists. The problem is that conservatives didn't raise enough hell often enough since they always believed that the system would correct itself and things would be OK over the longer term. Big mistake.
George Soros new organization to go after Tea Party.
http://www.teapartytracker.org/blog_entry/video-racist-elements-within-the-tea-party1
I don’t think it is odd. It is that search for Truth and Light.....That need to worship and thank “god” is evident throughout all written history of Western Civ and in all myth and even caveman art.
Knowing that there is a spiritual and moral element to man (differentiated from all other forms of life) was always very evident throughout Western Civilization.
The Sikh community is in many ways socially conservative, and is increasingly under attack by Muslims in our cities. They understand the dangers of jihad, but have we reached out to them? Hate crimes against Jews have spiked in NYC but I have seen little social conservative outreach to the Jews of New York.
In Queens, conservative Dan Halloran was the target of a smear campaign by the Village Voice‘s Steven Thrasher (who even implied I was a neo-Nazi after a lengthy interview with me). The attacks concerned Halloran’s religion – Theodism – and were authored by his Democratic opponent. While local conservatives defended Halloran, Christian conservatives have remained unwilling to defend the ever growing Right-leaning Pagan community from attacks on their religious freedom.
Hindus are an increasingly active part of the anti-jihad movement online and share many of the values one expects of good people of faith, but when was the last time social conservatives made an effort to reach out to American Hindus?
For starters, do you really have to spell all this out? Do you really have to make a special point of going out of your way publicly to embrace all sorts of (non-Muslim) religions by name? Can't it just be taken for granted that decent people of all religions will stand together for what's right? Maybe I'm not phrasing this right, but there's something about his appeal that leaves me cold.
And secondly, if you're a political candidate who reenacts German army battles or revives ancient German pagan religion, you're going to have trouble (especially in New York). You may be a wonderful person, the salt of the earth, but people are going to look at you funny and ask "Why?" and most other people aren't going to take the trouble to defend you. Sorry, but that's just the way it is, and I don't lose sleep over it.
Political Correctness was the start of the downfall. IMHO.
The oddity is the reference to “before Judaism.” 3000-3500 years ago is a long time, and I know of nothing prior to Judaism or classical Greek civilization that is identifiably Western in any way.
What is identifiably “western” about Egypt, Sumeria or the Indus civilization? What other pre-Judaic civilization or society is he referencing?
When leftists are telling the people of these other faiths that social conservatives hate them because they're not Christians, maybe it is necessary to let them know otherwise. Given some of the intra-Christian brawls around here, I'm not sure the leftists aren't right about some conservatives.
If you obviously despise Catholics or Protestants or Mormons, it is not unreasonable for a Sikh to feel a little unwelcome.
Yet we continue to associate with neo-confederates and “southern nationalists” who are one step removed from Klansmen. I still run into people who defend the Council of Conservative Citizens, a racist Falangist group that not only openly supports racist beliefs but maintains links to White Nationalist sites on its Web page. Some of the Internet’s most popular “conservatives” are members of neo-Confederacy groups and the radical Libertarian fringe, exemplified by sites like LewRockwell.com, are so openly anti-Semitic and racist that they are supported by National Socialists and Islamists.
Agreed. Tagline.
For being so understanding of Marxist ideology, David Horowitz seems so acceptive of homosexuality and “civil unions”. To validate that behavior by government is to turn the Bible into hate speech and make it meaningless.
The homosexual movement was infiltrated by the Marxists, exactly as the feminists and unions and Black Panthers were—all to take down the family and Christianity—the two pillars of Western Civ. I know David knows all about Lukacs, Gramsci and Marcuse—so why is he so blind about what elevation and forced approval and reeducation means for all in society—to force people to accept some behavior as “good” which contradicts and belittles the Bible and destroys absolute values. This is a fundament assault on the freedom of religion and freedom of conscious. We are talking about behaviors that go against nature. It is not genetic. It is culturally-transmitted behavior (Afghanistan, Thailand, Ancient Japan, Ancient Rome and Greece).
It is one of the Communist goals—to make all sexual perversions acceptable. Why? Because it will destroy Christianity and the family—two main pariahs of Marx. The homosexual act is sexual immorality which is always the most damaging to all relationships and everywhere it has been acceptable, pederasty is rampant. Sins of the flesh destroy cultures faster than any other evil. Rome and Greece and Germany are the most blatant examples, of cultures that imploded, because of lack of sexual morality. Depravity to other humans always occur when one treats one’s own body in demeaning, destructive ways. No good ever comes out of it.
I know David did not write this article....but this respect given to civil unions is a mainstay on his site and it is the one area where he seems so naive.
I raised four boys and a daughter and worked with hundreds of young children, and understand how important ideas are to sexual identity in formative years. He seems to want a pagan paradigm or a Rohm-one for children which is so destructive to developing worldview and future of society. Marxists understand just how important culture is to shape the developing minds of boys. It is really quite sickening for all who have worked with young children for decades and Horowitz and “enlightened” men like him need to wake up or are they actually trying to enable rampant pederasty and sexual immorality, again, like raged in the SS and Weimar Republic and Ancient Greece and Rome.
Sin is always destructive, not only to oneself, but to the culture. To have government promote it, marginalizes what made Western Civ so great for the last 2000 years under the Christian paradigm, and drags it back to the pagan one. That is why welfare is so destructive, it rewards sin and therefore, destroys family and relationships.
Elimination of slavery, elevation of women, and equality and dignity for all is because of the Christian paradigm and the Old Testament.
Why? Because of the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God which are aligned to all Christian belief. Marx denies that which is obvious for the happiness of man. Homosexual acts are part of nihilism and “Culture of Death” and have no place in a country which was based on Locke’s Natural Law Theory and proven to be the best hope for a civil society in the history of mankind.
These morons keep going after the Tea Party like it was a real entity. “Getting” the Tea Party is like punching the wind in the nose.
It’s not every single paragraph, it’s for the next post in the collection. If you want it all on one page then click “print this post.”
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