MICHAEL S. writes:

This is really annoying. I get my shirts at Penney’s and my trousers at Macy’s. I’m on the “set it and forget it” clothing plan.

Jeanette V. writes:

When it was explained that the Bible passage, judge not lest ye be judged, means we are to judge righteously and not be hypocritical.  I also pointed out to her that just because there are many nice people who happen to be homosexual doesn’t make homosexuality something good.   Her reaction was to call me and my friends a bunch of f****** morons.  They then un-friended me with this parting line “Ignorance is bliss. Bye Bye.”

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Alissa writes:

Jeanette V. should try to cut ties as soon as she can with that female that unfriended her on Facebook. The tolerance of sin is the greatest evil. Those who cannot judge cannot distinguish between what is good and what is evil. In that light, discrimination and judgement aren’t so bad after all. The only necessary condition is that the judgement be righteous.

Joe Ames writes:

I hope Jeanette V. follows through on her situation by jettisoning her relative. It is no coincidence that the very people who are imposing pervs and sickness on us today, let us call them “antiamericans” (as “the Left“ does not adequately capture the nuances) were the ones that mastered the slander of the Old Americans, the Puritans. You see, the Puritans – my ancestors – understood human nature and the slippery slope. If you want a moral and decent society, the “bar of expectation” must be set very high, high enough to act as a personal goal, a sort of asymptote. While it may never actually be achieved it will motivate the lazy and weak to shape up their lives.

Jennette’s presumably young and female relative, a clear-cut and inexcusable moral coward, is responding rationally to the “bar of expectation” set by the anti-Americans. They are everything they projected onto the native stock Americans and more. Intolerant. Brutal. Unforgiving. Merciless. Relentless. They brook no compromise and punishment of transgression is swift and sure. Exactly as they maliciously portray the very people, the very culture, that attracted immigrants to their America by the tens of millions.

Thus the lie: Who would relinquish whatever pathetic belonging they might have on a one-way ticket to the land of “The Crucible”?

The answer is of course, no one. “The Crucible,” as the encapsulation of the wicked libel of the American character, is a construct, a creation, first introduced to us via Israel Zangwill’s objet du propaganda, “The Melting Pot.”

If we stand even a hope of reclaiming America, meaning here the culture and society of the Americans that attracted the world to us, then we must enforce an even higher bar of expectation against the anti-Americans.

I hope Jeanette employs a tried and tested, Old American tactic against her morally weak relative: the Silence. It works. But remember, the key to its effectiveness is the absolute guarantee of full acceptance upon repentance, the carrot to the stick.

Laura writes:

Here is more. Jeanette wrote in her original e-mail:

This is family member who has decided that her tolerance’ of homosexuality is worth more than a family relationship and I bet she feels morally superior for doing so as well. Sad really that this kind of thinking is so pervasive.

Her parting words posted on my Facebook wall:

Actually, you’re the person who seems to feel superior. As for you being family, I was never in a close relationship with you. Lose the drama. I am unfriending you because I just don’t like your opinions. Life is too short. Take care.

This woman is over 40 years old and should know better. Unfortunately this shows me that common sens and Christian values are losing the culture war.

 Laura writes:

Joe’s point is an important one. A woman such as this and the homosexual left in general are everything they project the Puritans to be. Intolerant. Brutal. Unforgiving. Merciless.

Stewart writes:

I was most bemused by Jeanette V’s family member judging Jeanette for judging others: “WOW, words cannot describe my disappointment. If you’re so in to God, remember that it is only his place to judge  ANYONE.'” This person should listen to Jeanette’s advice and stop being a hypocrite.

Buck writes:

That was bold of Jeanette.

When a traditionalist conservative speaks the truth out of place, or out of bounds, we risk instantly being branded a “hater,” even though we neither harbor nor display any hate. The hate, or anger is all around us, simmering under the surface. We all experience the same thing. It takes only a gentle remark to break the social seal and release the hate or anger to the surface. That, of course, permanently ends any chance at the friendly dialogue that was foolishly sought.

Attorney General Eric Holder notoriously called all of us cowards for not speaking the truth to each other about race (setting aside that his Dept. of Justice labors to hide that truth). He said that our essence is that of cowards. If that is true, then it’s true in a larger sense. We need to live together and to “get along.” If we all always speak our minds, the streets will be on fire. So we talk among ourselves to feel sane. The overwhelming and pervasive power of modern liberalism reaches into every facet of our public or social lives and even into much of our private lives.

I generally feel like a leper confined to my colony; a parcel of shared bandwidth in the digital cloud. When I walk the ground among my neighbors, my mythical sores aren’t imagined if I keep my thoughts to myself. If I slip up, instantly the alarm pheromones are released all around and the room becomes agitated. Fight, submit, or withdraw. Sometimes it is members of our own family, people that we love. For the most part, we have to maintain vast areas of neutral ground, DMZs, in order to survive, as individuals.

I’m surely not the only one who sometimes feels like I’m living a secret life, wondering what the hell happened. Sorta like the yet un-snatched character of Donald Sutherland at the end in the movie, The Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1978). Yet un-snatched, un-controlled by the modern liberal pod people, for the most part anyway.

Hyperbole? Sure, but not by much.

Sometimes, I hear a little me on my shoulder (younger and good looking). But, he’s a lunatic who raves fearlessly at the room, while I just sit there, the likable, amiable coward that I am.

Laura writes:

The Thinking Housewife can relate to what you say.

However, it’s not cowardice to keep from raving. After all, many people don’t understand the lies they have been fed. Let’s say you were in a room filled with blind people and you were the only one who could see. Would you get mad at them for not seeing or would you show them how to keep from bumping into the wall and get to the door?

Alan writes:

In the 1940s-50s, my mother shopped regularly at a J.C. Penney’s store within walking distance from where she lived. It would have been unimaginable to her and the people who lived in that neighborhood to think that one day Penney’s would pander to the lowest common denominator – which, in Newspeak, they call “being in sync with the rhythm of our customers’ lives.”

It was J.C. Penney’s that withdrew a line of “trash talk” basketball-themed T-shirts after a feminist group complained about them in 1999. Earlier that year they agreed to remove T-shirts featuring something called “South Park,” which was apparently a TV show with foul-mouthed grade school children. (I do not know, for I never had the misfortune to see it.)

The moral decadence of modern culture does not lie in the fact that Penney’s will not consider renouncing their latest policy decision, but in the fact that they agree to consider such things as “trash talk” T-shirts or queer spokesmen in the first place. The very fact that public debate about such things is taking place is proof of that decadence. The fact that such things as “trash talk,” or rap “music,” or agitation for “queer rights” or “same-sex marriage” even exist is proof of the moral decadence of modern American culture.

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