Posted on 09/17/2018 10:20:53 PM PDT by Signalman
It is almost impossible to overstate the damage done to America's moral compass by taking the charges leveled against Judge Brett Kavanaugh seriously.
It undermines foundational moral principles of any decent society.
Those who claim the charges against Judge Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford are important and worth investigating, and that they ultimately, if believed, invalidate his candidacy for the U.S. Supreme Court are stating that:
a) What a middle-aged adult did in high school is all we need to know to evaluate an individual's character -- even when his entire adult life has been impeccable.
b) No matter how good and moral a life one has led for 10, 20, 30, 40 or even 50 years, it is nullified by a sin committed as teenager.
No decent -- or rational -- society has ever believed such nihilistic nonsense.
This is another example of the moral chaos sown by secularism and the left. In any society rooted in Judeo-Christian values, it is understood that people should be morally assessed based on how they behave over the course of their lifetime -- early behavior being the least important period in making such an assessment.
These religious values taught us that all of us are sinners and, therefore, with the exception of those who have engaged in true evil, we need to be very careful in making moral evaluations of human beings.
And, of course, we were taught to extend forgiveness when people demonstrate through their actions that they have changed. As a well-known ancient Jewish adage put it: "Where the penitent stands, the most righteous cannot stand."
In other words, the highest moral achievement is moral improvement.
Perhaps the most important principle violated by taking this 36-year-old high school-era charge seriously is the principle of the moral bank account.
Every one of us has a moral bank account. Our good deeds are deposits, and our bad deeds are withdrawals. We therefore assess a person the same way we assess our bank account. If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red.
By all accounts -- literally all -- Brett Kavanaugh's moral bank account is way in the black. He has led a life of decency, integrity, commitment to family and commitment to community few Americans can match. On these grounds alone, the charges against him as a teenager should be ignored.
So, why is this charge taken seriously?
One reason is, as I recently wrote, the greatest fear in America is fear of the left -- the fear of what the left will do to you if you cross it. Not fear of God. Not fear of doing wrong. Fear of the left. Offend the left and you will lose your reputation and, quite often, your job or your business.
Another reason is pure, amoral, demagogic politics. No honest American of any political persuasion believes that if a woman were to charge a Democrat-appointed judge such as Merrick Garland with doing to her 36 years ago in high school what Brett Kavanaugh is charged with having done 36 years ago in high school, the Democratic Party and the media would be demanding the confirmation vote be delayed or the candidate withdraw.
A third reason is feminism's weakening of the American female (and male, but that is another story). A generation ago, a drunk teenager at a party trying groping a teenage girl over her clothing while trying to remove as much of her clothing as possible would not have been defended or countenanced. But it would not have been deemed as inducing post-traumatic stress disorder either.
This weakening of the female is perfectly illustrated by the statement released by Susanna Jones, head of Holton-Arms School, the private preparatory school for girls in Bethesda, Maryland, that the accuser attended. "As a school that empowers women to use their voices, we are proud of this alumna for using hers," Jones said.
"Empowers women"? Please. Nearly every woman over puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her (the groping of a pre-pubescent is sexual molestation of a child and an act of evil). My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a "survivor," she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps, Japanese prisoner of war camps and cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.
When my wife was a waitress in her midteens, the manager of her restaurant grabbed her breasts and squeezed them on numerous occasions. She told him to buzz off, figured out how to avoid being in places where they were alone and continued going about her job. That's empowerment.
In sum, I am not interested in whether Mrs. Ford, an anti-Trump activist, is telling the truth. Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17. But for the record, I don't believe her story. Aside from too many missing details -- most women remember virtually everything about the circumstances of a sexual assault no matter how long ago -- few men do what she charges Kavanaugh with having done only one time. And no other woman has ever charged him with any sexual misconduct.
Do not be surprised if a future Republican candidate for office or judicial nominee -- no matter how exemplary a life he has led -- is accused of sexual misconduct ... from when he was in elementary school.
“This is all about abortion, and keeping the Supreme Court as their liberal super legislature that makes up laws out of the thin air that are not subject to the accountability of the people. “
Yes it is. I heard DiGenova this morning and he was really pissed at the Repubikans for letting this charade go on. He said that if they fail to get Kavanaugh confirmed they will lose the senate. I agree with him.
DiFi is scared that she will lose her senate gig so this is her “grand gesture” in the hopes it will be enough to save her from defeat. That’s ALL this is!
Any Republican senators who allow this scam to work should be canned!
What charges? The letter lacks sufficient specifics to constitute such a thing, or really even discuss except perhaps as a hypothetical.
“If Grassley had a sack he would have said F you...no hearing and we are voting Thursday.”
This ^^. It’s as simple as that but the repukes are bound and determined to not only lose the house but the senate too. /spit
It also apparently comes on the heels of his writing kissing her into scripts, then going over the top. It’s not a one-off.
If he did it, or didn’t do it, Feinstein should be subject to discipline for her behavior in the matter. She either with-held appropriate evidence, or presented a bogus matter.
Defamation suits are a hair from impossible as he is a public figure.
Had to turn him off today, was so ticked off at him.
At this point, we not only don’t know the exact accusation, we don’t even know there was a party, or if there was, whether either attended.
You have my sympathies.
No, u r disqualified
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