Grandparents are told they are too old to raise their grandchildren, who are taken from them against their will, then given to a gay couple. Assuredly this is the death knell to any effort to get them back. Peter Hitchens:
If I never again had to read or write a word about homosexuals, I would be very happy. I really don't want to know what other people do in their bedrooms. But these days they really, really want us all to know. And, more important, they insist that we approve. No longer are we allowed to keep our thoughts to ourselves, while being polite and kind.And this:We are forced to say that we think homosexuality is a good thing, that homosexual couples are equal in all ways to heterosexual married couples. Most emphatically, we are compelled to agree that homosexual couples are just as good at bringing up children as the children's own grandparents. Better, in fact.
Isn't it amazing to reflect that this campaign began in the name of tolerance?
On the same site, Melanie Phillips, a Christian nurse facing the sack for offering to pray for a patient--this is the way a society dies. And then we have moralizing from our president, on a subject with rather more immediate risk. Dorothy Rabinowitz:
Having, on the second day of his presidency, issued executive orders effectively undermining efforts to extract (from captured al Qaeda operatives) intelligence essential to the prevention of terror attacks -- and in addition seriously hampering the prosecution of terrorist detainees -- Mr. Obama argued that it was just by such steps that we strengthened our security. In his own words: "It is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral high ground to be able to effectively deal with the unthinking violence that we see emanating from terrorist organizations around the world."Unthinking? I think they know exactly what they want to do. "Violence" comes straight from the "cycle of violence". Liberals love us to assign moral equivalence where there is none, so that they can avoid any real moral choices, you know like what is good and what is pure evil. And yes, this is the way a society dies too.What can this mean? What moral high ground, exactly, would have enabled us to deter the designs of the religious fanatics in search of martyrdom and the slaughter of as many Americans as possible on September 11?
P.S. Roger Scruton, CityJournal:
What is needed is not to reject citizenship as the foundation of social order but to provide it with a heart. And in seeking that heart, we should turn away from the apologetic multiculturalism that has had such a ruinous effect on Western self-confidence and return to the gifts that we have received from our Judeo-Christian tradition.
