News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—It’s just another day for Judge Amy Coney Barrett: being submissive and serving her husband so he’ll let her out to end all women’s rights.
“You see, I’m trying to end Roe v. Wade,” Judge Barrett explained as she seasoned her roast.
“End my hunger,” answered her husband.
“My goal is to make The Handmaid’s Tale happen for real,” Judge Barrett said as she put the food in the oven.
“Make dinner real,” growled her husband.
When dinner was finally served and deemed “adequate,” Judge Barrett’s husband told her, “Okay, you can go do your knitting club or whatever.”
“I’m trying to get confirmed to the Supreme Court so I can set this country back two hundred years,” Judge Barrett told him.
Go here to read the rest. Our adversaries in this country don’t know who conservatives and traditional Christians really are, and they definitely do not want to know. Far easier to hate straw men and women rather than flesh and blood people who you might actually like. That is why the future Justice Barrett is such a threat. She puts a human face on beliefs the Left hates, and that they will not tolerate. That is why Democrat Senators will not even deign to meet her.
Very immature attitude on the part of Democrats and other Liberals, not wanting to know what and how others think and evaluate issues in their lives. I know this from personal experience as surely most parents do.
I am still giggling over “relatively intolerant, it’ll take time to make believes I disagree with taboo” which works perfectly if you read it as saying “soon, if we try hard, we’ll be ABSOLUTELY intolerant and not have to allow ANYTHING we object to!”
Yeah. Culturally, we’re very tolerant –at least according to the oldspeak dictionary definition. If I remember my Justinianic Code, they used to burn homosexuals at the stake.
The lefty’s tweet seems to confirm Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions. A world view that basically says “anything anyone wants to do to or with anyone else or anyone else’s property is perfectly OK” would be, I think, a world view without convictions.
And Don, I think you’re right on the money with your observation about the effects of putting a face on those horrible beliefs of those horrible people “on the other side.” Short anecdote to illustrate: A good friend and co-worker in the corporate legal mines, a lifelong old-school Democrat, made the mistake (my opinion) of sending her daughter to a very woke all-women’s college, where she was predictably indoctrinated, and came out making her Mom look like a conservative. She actually took a staff position at Planned Parenthood after graduation, and called it her dream job. The three of us had lunch one day during the runup to the 2012 election, in the course of which she made the statement that Republicans are evil–she actually used that word–and should be prohibited from voting, like convicted felons. Mind you, I had known the daughter since she had pigtails and braces on her teeth, and she had even called me “Uncle” at one time. I gently reminded her that I am a third-generation Republican, to which she responded along the lines of “well, maybe not ALL Republicans.” Not sure how long that lasted, but there it is.