A Shining Star (Parker)
July 21st 2008 13:49
Star Parker is a conservative writer with a lot to say. I like her style and her philosophy (obviously, since we tend to agree!). While I don't usually have much to say on the subject of gays (in or out of the military) unless it's in the headlines, I thought her article today was worth passing along.
Moral relativism, lack of responsibility, quick fixes and easy outs are very popular these days in every level of our society (global and national, both). Ms. Parker is quite right about what George Washington would think about gays in the military as well as many of the other new "standards" that our society has incrementally imposed. For someone whom the left doesn't believe was a Christian, he had some very definite Christian-sounding views.
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Moral relativism, lack of responsibility, quick fixes and easy outs are very popular these days in every level of our society (global and national, both). Ms. Parker is quite right about what George Washington would think about gays in the military as well as many of the other new "standards" that our society has incrementally imposed. For someone whom the left doesn't believe was a Christian, he had some very definite Christian-sounding views.
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It's a sign of this moral war of attrition that each battle is fought with less and less attention to what it means to the overall war.
Star Parker, July 21 08.
She wrote a column and a half in just those two sentences. (Somebody oughta send just those two lines to a Ch. of England official -- notably Abp Williams who needs to see why he's standing on rubble, and it's not just the Americanns' fault this time.)
Washington was at best a little more than nominal Anglican, and more involved with the Masons. But whatever moral values he received were shaped by the culture he grew up in which was strongly Protestant/Anglican and these shared values were generally accepted as social norms which also became legal norms. I'm leaving you with a citation for an article I've read by a Protestant scholar in First Things magazine which gives you an idea of how far the country's been sliding. (And of course, read WFB's Nearer My God (esp. in the back part where he shows how the Prot. establi shment's elite prep schools have drifted. And he wrote that, along with God and Man at Yale as a very devout Catholic, no less.)
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Have fun with both.
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Comment by Lester Caudill
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What would they be called if the air force had a gay squad? Maybe the flying fairies.
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I seriously don't understand why gays have to "come out of the closet" anyway. Can't they keep their personal stuff to themselves? How many straight people actually have to go around telling the details of what they do in bed? Nothing is private or sacred anymore, I guess. Maybe it's more of a "shoving in the face" of straight people that makes them do it.... Or proving that they don't have to go by the Bible if they don't want to...
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