Same sex marriage ping
From the piece; Truth!
“Obviously, there is not yet a strong body of research on same-sex parenting, given that it’s a social experiment still at the embryonic stage. But some would like to prevent investigation and reflection from slowing the march of ideology into the lives of children.
“What do we need with a retrograde researcher?” the New Republic blogger asked. This hits on a key question: In a culture that claims so often to value tolerance above all other values, do we tolerate non–sexual revolution values when it comes to issues of marriage and family?”
Thank you, nevedem, for posting this excellent piece from National Review.
The viral infection of religious type notions of “absolute truth” is spreading in every realm of science, with everyone who is part of a current “consensus” considered a trusted co-owner of “modern science” and everyone disagreeing with each “consensus” becoming an apostate, a “denier”, a blasphemer of orthodox “modern science”. Such an atmosphere is the beginning of the end of science because it turns science into a belief system and away from the pursuit of and finding of knowledge - a pursuit with its origins not in acceptance of accepted consensus, but in the skeptic.
"When people look back on this or any other momentous debate decades or centuries from now, one of the first things they will want to know is whose corner reason and empiricism and logic were in. That would be the corner of those willing to believe the truth — secured by the research of the scholars whose work testifies to it, whether the rest of the world wants to hear it or not.”From everything I have seen from our Left over the last 20 or so years, the answer is a resounding NO! And this goes well beyond social issues and into effectively every issue in the public sphere, and not a few of what should be private.
If we take a deep breath, and read between the lines of some of the most heated rhetoric accusing Catholics or Republicans or a social scientist in Texas of waging a “war on women” or favoring some other kind of supposedly hurtful or hateful cause, these are the questions we should be asking: Do we tolerate the raising, in the public square, of questions about the effects of our sexual choices, and even about the purpose of sex? Do we care enough about the welfare of children to have a robust scientific, cultural, moral, political debate?
The Left is not interested in logic, empiricism, or an honest debate. It is why our RINOs need to quit "reaching across the aisle", until such interest returns.