Another blow to traditional mores
Once again, the plucky editorial staff of the Observer-Reporter has shown a cartoonish and childish understanding of the problems besetting America.
With the economy in the toilet, record unemployment, threats from terrorism at an all-time high, a presidential candidate under serious investigation by the FBI, race relations in shambles, public water problems plaguing Flint, Mich., murders spiking in cities with the strongest gun-control measures, what concerns the newspaper the most? According to its April 21 editorial, a few comments made by a retired baseball player dealing with perverts who want access to bathrooms of the opposite sex.
Wait. Really?
You’re concerned about the feelings of emotionally-wounded reprobates with a made-up, phony “condition” known as “transgenderism?” If science cannot find it in your DNA, it’s not real. It’s a mental problem.
Let’s be real. Ten to 15 years ago, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. Curt Schilling’s comments were bold ones, to be sure. However, he, like the majority of average, decent Americans, sees the harm in having swarthy, sweaty men declaring themselves to be women, going in the wrong door to watch little girls take care of necessary functions and vice-versa. We are sick and tired of having immorality rammed down our collective throats – now, with the backing and force of the government, we must endure another body blow to traditional mores.
Liberalism is doing a victory lap. First, gay marriage, now androgynous bathrooms. The progressive left has seemingly won the culture war and is reveling in the moment. Morality was turned into a filthy, hateful term. There is no more right or wrong. It’s whatever you want at that moment.
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson wrote recently “you will be made to care,” adding that opinions to the contrary of the collectivist thought being championed at that moment, will result in severe punishment – loss of job, loss of status within the community, loss of credibility, right on up to losses of money and freedom. Free speech, guaranteed in the Constitution (remember that document, anyone?) is moribund. Thinking outside of the box, unless it supports the progressive agenda, is verboten.
I fully support Schilling expressing his opinion. It’s high time to push back, and hard, against the real hatred that is coming from those attempting to obliterate traditional values and mores. They are true haters of all who don’t think like them and everything they value.
John A. Quayle
North Franklin