America has a lot to be ashamed of. Confirming Brett
Kavanaugh is not one of them. By Joel Hilliker, 10/10/18.
Shame!
Shame! Shame!” That was the angry chant of leftist protesters directed toward
United States senators. What had they done that was so shameful? Confirm Brett
Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
America
has a lot to be ashamed of, but not this.
In order to confirm President Donald Trump’s appointment, Senate Republicans needed almost every
last vote. People were scrutinizing which Republicans might defect—including
Susan Collins of Maine. In 2014, she was the first Republican senator ever to
be reelected while publicly supporting homosexual “marriage,” and she received
a 90 percent score from a league of abortionists. Last year, she received an
award from the largest American abortion organization, and the New York Times ranked
her as the most liberal Republican. Opponents of Kavanaugh hoped Collins would
vote against his confirmation based on her political views.
On
Friday, Collins announced her decision in a 43-minute speech on the Senate
floor. She reviewed Kavanaugh’s judicial record, showing that he was not a
radical, then addressed the accusations that Kavanaugh committed sexual
misconduct 36 years ago when he was a teenager, allegations that have proved
unsubstantiated, unprovable, even outlandish. “That such an allegation can find
its way into the Supreme Court confirmation process is a stark reminder about
why the presumption of innocence is so ingrained in our American
consciousness,” she said.
Collins’s
case was sound and well reasoned. The response against her was not. The Women’s
March called her a “rape apologist.” Twitter users said they wanted to punch
her in the face, demanded that others prevent her from ever having a moment of
peace in public for the rest of her life, and hoped someone would kill her.
When
West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin announced outside his office that he would be the lone Democrat to vote yes to
Kavanaugh, he could barely be heard over the shouts of protesters. Texas
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was chased out of a Washington, D.C., restaurant by an angry mob shouting, “We
believe survivors!” Supposed justice-seekers have “doxed” senators and their
family members, revealing names, addresses and phone numbers online for the
purpose of enabling people to harass them. Someone sent Colorado Republican
Sen. Cory Gardner and his wife a graphic video of a beheading.
This is the vile, violent vitriol that the left has unleashed
against Brett Kavanaugh and anyone who supports him. The reaction of leftists
has been a picture of shocking lawlessness and mob mentality. And the shouts go
on: “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
Leftists
had no constitutional reason, no compelling reason, no logical reason to block
Kavanaugh. They pronounce shame on him and his supporters for political reasons.
Shame that he believes in the rule of
law. Shame that
he believes in the Constitution—the document that establishes the Supreme Court
in the first place. Shame that he acknowledges that judges
and justices should not try to take over the job of elected legislators. Shame that
he says that justices should not bend the law to suit their own agenda.
Shame on Senator Manchin and on
Republicans for upholding the rule of law! Shame on
Manchin for not politicizing his vote—shame on him for not ignoring the
evidence before him and simply voting like a sheep along with his party to
oppose the president, regardless of Brett Kavanaugh’s qualifications! Shame on
him for not destroying a man because a woman made an
unsubstantiated accusation against him.
Shame on anyone who didn’t simply “believe
women,” accept
everything his accusers said at face value, and presume his guilt!
If you think that people—at least if they
are conservatives or men—should not be torn down based on unprovable
accusations, then shame on you!
Such
pathetic “reasoning” has besieged an alarming proportion of America. These
wacky sentiments being screamed by protesters are being cheered on by the
Democratic Party and the mainstream news media.
It
is true we need a sense of shame in America.
The
dictionary defines shame as “a painful emotion caused by
consciousness of guilt, shortcoming or impropriety.” Americans have guilt,
shortcomings and impropriety. We should be conscious of those and ashamed by
them. But upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution is not one
of those evils to be ashamed of. Let’s talk about shame.
Causes of Real Shame - Let’s talk about abortion. Leftists are panicky
and outraged that Kavanaugh’s vote on the Supreme Court may lead to
overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that
legalized abortion. Leftists are committed to the sacrosanct doctrine that
women can use their sexuality however they want, get pregnant, then kill their
unborn children if they find them to be inconvenient. They have become
convicted that any effort to deny women this right must be stopped at all
costs.
Where Is America’s Sense of Shame?
Where Is America’s Sense of Shame?
When
Hillary Clinton ran for president the first time in 2008, she said that her
consistent policy for at least 15 years had been for abortion to be “safe,
legal and rare—and by rare, I mean rare.” She said she wanted to reduce the
number of abortions.
A
short decade later, this talking point has been replaced by a loud, angry
demand for “women’s rights.” Neither Clinton nor anyone else on the left speaks
about why abortion should be rare. There is no mainstream discussion
about the anguish suffered by women who have abortions, or there even being a
moral dimension to this question. Abortion clinics downplay negative information and encourage abortion.
They don’t counsel women about the seriousness of the choice—they try to get
them in and out as quickly as possible, concerned only about profit. In fact,
reports have surfaced of representatives of tissue-procurement companies
pressuring women sitting in abortion-clinic waiting rooms to donate their
babies’ body parts for research!
Our
culture has grown so coarse and callous that American women have
undergone more than 716,000 abortions so
far this year.
Leftists
ominously warned that if Brett Kavanaugh were confirmed to the Supreme Court,
“millions of people will die.” Here is a statistic of millions of people dying: Since Roe v. Wade, Planned
Parenthood and other abortion mills have killed more than 60.7 million unborn babies (AbortionClock.org).
This is something Americans should feel genuine shame over.
Let’s
talk about sexual conduct. Christine Blasey Ford claimed that a 17-year-old
Brett Kavanaugh had gotten drunk at a party and jumped on her on a bed before
she escaped. She did not claim that he raped her, or even came close.
Nevertheless, Democrats insisted that this incident should disqualify Kavanaugh
from ever serving on the Supreme Court. We must set the bar very high when it
comes to sexual conduct and respecting women, they insisted.
Of
course we should set the bar very high regarding
sexual conduct and respecting women and public office. It is shameful how low
our moral standards have dropped. But what is troubling here—apart from the
fact that we should also set the bar very high on discerning whether a serious
accusation is truthful—is the shameless
hypocrisy of
leftists.
The
leftists piled on Kavanaugh, universally accepting Ford’s accusation as truth
and treating it as a career-ending crime. They shamed those
who disbelieved. usa Today sports
reporter Erik Brady wrote that Kavanaugh shouldn’t even coach basketball, let
alone join the Supreme Court: “Credibly accused sex offenders should not coach
youth basketball, girls or boys, without deeper investigation. Can’t we all
agree on that?”
During
the hearings, Democratic senators questioned Kavanaugh in detail about his
sexual activities as a teenager and his consumption of beer. They studiously
played the part of strict moralists, deeply troubled by any whiff of indecency.
In
truth, these same people are passionate advocates of sexual
license!
Liberal
politicians have enthusiastically led America into safeguarding, legalizing and
promoting pornography, fornication, adultery, misogyny and mind-altering drugs.
Their allies in the film and television industry make millions off of
entertainment that objectifies women for the purpose of arousing lust. The
music industry is saturated with songs sexualizing, objectifying and debasing
women. Some of these stars perform these appalling songs at Democratic campaign functions! The pornography industry routinely portrays women
being horrifically brutalized and abused. University professors and students
publicly branded Kavanaugh as a sex offender, yet these same universities host
licentious, perverse, sexually themed events for students, who participate with
abandon.
Shame!
This is something that should shame Americans! This is something we
should be protesting!
Reports
are increasingly filling our news media of American schoolchildren being
indoctrinated with homosexual propaganda. The same is true in Britain, where a
recent bbc story
showed a teacher of 6-year-olds having them write love letters to
same-sex partners! “You’re Prince Henry,” she said, “you’re going to tell
Thomas why it’s a brilliant idea for him to marry you.” That is shameful! That
is something that should provoke painful emotions!
A
couple of days ago as I was flipping between news stations, my attention was
arrested for a moment on a reality show where a group of friends discussed
where they should go for a road trip. One said she had the perfect spot: New
Orleans. Why? Because there they could get as drunk as they wanted and never
get kicked out of a bar. There they could urinate or vomit in the street and
never get arrested or even draw much attention. The group of 10 or so friends
cheered wildly at this idea!
Shame!
That—and the whole gutter culture it represents—is something Americans should
be ashamed of.
America
has a lot to be ashamed about. And it’s not constitutional judges being
dubiously accused by politically motivated opponents—it’s our sins that
should shame us!
We
are all sinners. If you are avoiding, fighting and overcoming sin, that is one
thing. But Americans today are reveling in it, embracing it and celebrating
it—then turning around and shouting that others should
be ashamed!
What sickness in
America the Kavanaugh confirmation exposed! Leftists, neck-deep in immorality have
appropriated the language of morality and righteousness. They
have instituted their immorality as the new orthodoxy. They have instituted
their own definitions of righteousness. And by these manufactured standards,
they judge, denounce, punish and condemn.
The
Apostle Paul prophesied in Romans 10:3: “They being ignorant of God’s
righteousness, and
going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of God.”
Does
this not perfectly describe America in 2018? If so, shame on us.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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