Posted on 03/30/2011 12:53:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
Underneath headlines about Libya, the Japanese disaster and the Republicans’ dainty attempts to nip around the edges of our massive federal debt, the culture war is raging.
The Left is lobbing nukes into the institution of marriage and the military. Obamacare is going forward, complete with funding for abortion and massive increases in the size of the already enormous Department of Health and Human Services. Defunding this increasingly unpopular power grab should be in every single budget bill – but it’s not.
Using a combination of judicial activism, executive malfeasance and legislative cunning, and counting on an anemic “defense” from the leaders of the “party of family values,” the Left is advancing its cultural agenda with remarkable ease.
Despite no promised certification that lifting the military’s ban on homosexuality won’t harm readiness, recruiting or retention, Obama’s Pentagon has already produced materials hatched in a theater of the absurd. As Washington Times correspondent Rowan Scarborough reports, Marine commanders will have to ponder, for example, what to do if two male marines are seen kissing in a shopping mall.
Now there’s a scenario for building respect for the military among the nation’s youngsters.
Boy: “Look, mom, those men in uniforms are, uh, making out right there in the food court! I’m not sure I want to be a soldier after all.”
Liberal mom: “Well, that’s a relief. I didn’t want you to be in the military anyway. All those guns give me the creeps. But why do you find this odd? Are you some kind of religious bigot? Honestly, we’re going to have to call your school and ask them to step up the tolerance training. You won’t even wear that nice polka dot dress and pumps I bought you.”
On the plus side, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, chaired by Joe (“You lie”) Wilson (R-SC) will conduct a hearing on Friday, April 1, with Dr. Clifford Stanley, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness, and Vice Admiral William Gortney, Director of the Joint Staff, answering questions about how gutting the law will affect the troops. They will be expected to insist that it will have little impact, but they will be on the hot seat if House members pose some of the 25 pages of tough questions compiled by the Center for Military Readiness.
Meanwhile, the Obama Administration has announced its refusal to defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which a liberal Massachusetts judge found unconstitutional. House Speaker John Boehner has questioned the “timing” of this dereliction of duty, and has said the House itself will move to defend the law. Fine, but is there ever a good time to trash marriage and the law?
The national assault on Judeo-Christian morality mirrors what is going on in communities all over the country.
For example, the usual suspects – the ACLU – are intent on tearing down a banner in a Rhode Island high school that encourages good behavior.
Here’s the text of the banner, which has hung in Cranston High School West’s auditorium since 1963:
Our Heavenly Father,
Grant us each day the desire to do our best,
To grow mentally and morally as well as physically,
To be kind and helpful to our classmates and teachers,
To be honest with ourselves as well as with others,
Help us to be good sports and smile when we lose as well as when we win,
Teach us the value of true friendship,
Help us always to conduct ourselves so as to bring credit to Cranston High School West.
Amen.
The ACLU and a single complainant are frothing at the mouth because of the references to “Our Heavenly Father” and “Amen.”
Those words make Rhode Island’s ACLU lawyers shudder like hobbits exposed to the black language of Mordor.
Fortunately, school officials have told the ACLU to take a hike. The usual threat of ruinously expensive lawsuits appears to have failed – for now.
From the halls of Congress to high schools in Rhode Island, the culture war has not slowed a bit despite lack of coverage in major news media.
At bottom, the culture war is really about whether America will remain a God-fearing nation—and a nation with respect for the rule of law. Despite promises by the Left that we can have respect for the law without respect for God, history is replete with contrary evidence.
Let’s hope and pray that the courage and clarity exhibited by school officials in Cranston, Rhode Island, filters up to the national level.
zer0’s military has done un speakable thing’s in war. Everything obama an his people have touched has been a train wreck
Uhbummer sux and all who are not advocating and pushing slash and burn policies on the federal mafia have to go...
There doesn’t appear to be a culture war financial agent working on the conservative side. The Left has the Congress and the taxpayer and George Soros. Several Right guys have left big piles of money to help the Right causes, but they’ve been preempted by clever back room maneuvering; Walter Annenberg, for example. It would appear that there simply isn’t a shinning white knight of the Right. Yeah, it’s great of Glen Beck to get hundred’s of thousands of ordinary people into the fight, but the MSM limits his success. Where is the Right’s equivalent of the ALCU? Are there even any lawyer’s on the Right?
If there is a conservative equivalent to the ACLU it would probably be the ADF: http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/
I have no idea if they’re actually influential or successful though.
I think the corporate class has been hijacked. State and city laws have enabled lawsuits and activist patronage-seeking, which have made corporations far more socially liberal than they would be otherwise.
You have to admire the tactic. Conservatives spent the Cold War praising the free market, so left wingers just decided to take over the free market.
“Using a combination of judicial activism, executive malfeasance and legislative cunning, and counting on an anemic “defense” from the leaders of the “party of family values,” the Left is advancing its cultural agenda with remarkable ease.”
And I’ll bet this fat-ass so-called “conservative” has never attended a local village council meeting, never showed up at a county board meeting and never volunteered to sit on planning board.
I get real tired of “conservatives” bitching about the federal government but they don’t have gumption to clean out their own local neighborhoods.
James Otis and Sam Adams had it right on how to take back your country - start locally. But the conservative genuises today haven’t figured it out yet.
We elected more than 700 patriots to state legislatures last November, yet dumb-ass “conservatives” want to concentrate all the firepower on DC instead of building on what’s already been won. Talk about stupid.
And this jerk can go fly a kite.
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