The Morality Sweepstakes

American Thinker ^ | Dec 16, 2017 | Robin Ridless

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I have a theory. It is not that the scales have fallen from our eyes about sexual harassment. It’s that the cultural left has run out of game. Without game, it can’t pass off sleazy exploitation as something else. Neo-avant-gardist art, brand-leveraged politics, deconstructionist philosophy, spectacle, fashion, the Lacanian Real - - none of these are any longer up to the task. Transgressive politics are dead. Worse, they’re boring. Even the New York Times’s Andrew Sullivan and Ross Douthat are rooting for the baker, penning their sudden doubts about the rectitude of humiliating devout Christians for sport.

So the up-and-coming phrase in town, ladies and gentlemen, is ““situational ethics.”.” It denotes, I believe, the idea that there is one ultimate truth about women who claim they have been assaulted, progressives have a monopoly in it, and if conservatives aren’t sufficiently obsequious, they are colluding. The values of anyone who dissents are, moreover, disgusting to the exact degree they deviate from progressive verities. What is interesting to note, amid the current jubilee of raucously righteous self-congratulation, is that this idea marks off yet another area of discourse that can’t be contradicted or demurred to. To disagree is to condone. It is, in other words, shorthand for political correctness. It is political correctness, on Viagra.

In a parallel universe in which Harvey Weinstein was a courtly gentleman respectful of women, you could imagine the whole Al Franken in flagrante delicto thing going a different way. You could, for example, imagine some postmodernist theorist arguing that the photograph in which he appears to be grabbing a sleeping Leann Tweden’s breasts is a statement about the demolition of “the female gaze.” Or it is about trespass and agency, or the “hegemonic contingency of raw presence.”

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Let the morality game play out. We know which side will lose.

[SunkenCiv]

G’night (again).

[Pontiac]

the rectitude of humiliating devout Christians for sport.

Leave it to the Left to minimize what they are doing to real people with their war on the traditional American values, which they disdain and despise.

They are not merely humiliating Christians and it is not sport. They are destroying lives. This man’s business and livelihood are ruined. His bank account has been exhausted.

What this is really about is silencing Christians using the legal system. It is terrorism by use of the courts.

Terrorism:The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.

This is exactly what is going on with the Gay Mafia. They are using the courts to silence Christians and stop them from talking and acting to publicly promote or espouse Christian morals or values. And so far they have been exceptionally successful.

Christians have been for the most part silenced. It started with IRS laws took away the right of churches to take political stands. Then it became “impolite” to espouse Christian values in public “Keep that stuff in Church”.

For 70 years the Left has made it a major project to make morality a target of ridicule and debasement. And Christians have let them git away with it in the name of Civility.

Maybe we should stop.