Advocating morality doesn't make people bigoted

It's the title of today's article from Cal Thomas. In reference to the recent overturning of California's ban against same-sex marraige, Mr. Thomas starts out his article by stating that "A nation that does not see in law a right to life for its unborn children and a court that allows more than 50 million of them to be killed claiming a nonexistent "penumbra" in the Constitution is not about to acquire a moral -- much less a constitutional -- backbone when it comes to same-sex "marriage." " I couldnt agree more. Mr Thomas continues his line of thought by pointing out how the American people have become increasingly de-sensitized to how low we as a society are plummeting to in reference to our collective morality.

"No less a theological thinker than Abraham Lincoln concluded that our Civil War might have been God's judgment for America's tolerance of slavery. If that were so, why should "the Almighty," as Lincoln frequently referred to God, stay His hand in the face of our celebration of same-sex marriage?

There is more than one way to experience bankruptcy. America under the Obama administration is on the verge of economic insolvency, and now Judge Vaughn Walker has joined a conga line of similarly activist judges who are accelerating us down the path to destruction.

We have been spiraling downward for some time, beginning in the '50s with the Playboy philosophy that gave men permission to avoid the bonds of marriage if they wanted to have sex. In rapid succession came the birth control pill (sex without biological consequences), "no-fault divorce" (nullifying "until death us do part"), cohabitation, easily available pornography, and a tolerance for just about anything except those who deem something intolerable.

Such persons are now labeled "bigots" when once they were thought to be pillars of society...

What we tolerate, we get more of, and we have been tolerating a lot since the Age of Aquarius generation began the systematic destruction of what past generations believed they had sacrificed, fought and died to protect.

None of this should surprise anyone who takes the time to read and understand what happens to people and nations that disregard God. A Google search provides numerous examples for the biblically illiterate.

Two in particular stand out: "Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint," which is paraphrased in the Living Bible, "When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild." (Proverbs 29:18); and "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit." (Judges 21:25)"

While it is questionable to compare same-sex unions to traditional marraige insofar as the metrics of length of commitment and fidelity are concerned, that doesnt stop the Mainstream Media Machine in this country from painting others who don't tow the official party line as being bigots. Dennis Prager (pictured above) mentions in his article from today the recent murder spree at a Connecticut beer distributorship which left eight people dead. It seems that when a worker named Omar Thornton, who happened to be black, was fired for stealing beer, he went on a murderous rampage against employees. Did the Mainstream Media report this as merely an incident of workplace violence? No. Did they chalk up such unhinged behavior to the man being a psychopath who finally snapped? No. The first thing that the vermin in the media seized upon was alleged racism that the man had been experiencing. From Prager's article...

"Just as leading liberals would not ascribe Islamist motives – until there was no possibility of denying them – to recent Muslim attacks on Americans, the liberal media, i.e., almost all news media in America, do not brand these Connecticut murders for what they are: racist. That is why Thornton told the 9-1-1 operator, "I wish I could have gotten more of the people (i.e., whites)."

We are repeatedly told by liberal whites and blacks that America needs an honest dialogue on race. Needless to say, they don't mean it, because the moment a white or black says anything critical of black behavior, he is labeled racist or Uncle Tom. So most non-liberal whites and blacks just keep quiet.

One result is this morally upside-down reporting of the murders in Connecticut.

Another example is the liberal narrative on blacks in prison – "there are more black men in prison than in college." Every decent American regards this fact as a major tragedy. But most Americans believe that the fault lies primarily with the black criminals, not with a racist society. Most Americans believe that blacks who mug, rape, rob or murder commit those crimes for the same reason whites do – they lack a sufficiently strong moral conscience...

But the dominant liberal narrative is that while white criminals are criminals, black criminals are largely victims.

Another example was the liberal narrative of the 1992 "Rodney King" riots in Los Angeles. It was perfectly expressed by the major newspaper of that city, the Los Angeles Times. During the riots, in which innocent Koreans, whites and others were beaten, maimed and killed, and innocent businesses burned to the ground, the daily special section on the riots in the Los Angeles Times was titled "Understanding the Rage." When blacks riot, whites are the reason. When a black murders eight whites in Connecticut, whites are the reason.

One terrible consequence of this liberal attitude toward black violent crime is that too many blacks come to believe that less is expected of them morally than from whites. And the truth is that most Americans on the left do expect less from blacks."

Additionally, the Catholic Apologist recently wrote an entry about how parents are increasingly incapable of civility toward one another. If that's the case, then what can we expect from the next generation? I don't see any of his getting any better any time soon. As we gradually move towards a more secular society here, I see no reason to rejoice and celebrate such a cultural shift based upon the morality, or lack thereof, that such societal change brings with it.