D'vorahDavida
Yetzirah

Crouching behind my desk, a grizzled curmudgeon peering at the world through hairy, hooded eyebrows in grouchy dismay.

Yep. That would be me.

I read a little news on the internet each day and after reading the following excerpts from a parade of articles, I feel like the victim of a drive by shooting.

“A bill is gathering support in the Virginia legislature that would require unborn children be administered a painkiller before abortions are performed.
A measure introduced by Republican Dick Black will be considered by the justice committee of Virginia's lower chamber, the House of Delegates, Monday, reported WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. The Senate will address a similar measure Thursday.
"We must do everything possible to relieve the terror and suffering of children as they are aborted," said Black in a statement. “

And how about this:

“It's not China's draconian one-child policy, but a lawmaker in Washington state is proposing legislation to urge parents to have no more than two children.
State Rep. Maralyn Chase is the sponsor of what she calls the Two-or-Fewer Bill, which aims to promote population sustainability.
The bill does not mandate the number of children, but calls for a pamphlet to be distributed by Washington's health department spelling out the presumed benefits of having no more than two children.”

Furthermore:

“Will human clones have a soul? This question is producing a great deal of anxiety these days, especially since Great Britain, Holland and now New Jersey have legalized the cloning of human beings. Obviously, before answering whether or not a human clone will have a soul, we must define what a "soul" really is.”

(As an aside, that was the first question my middle son asked when human cloning was first being discussed after our friend “Dolly”. )

And finally, (for today at least)
COLUMBUS — Gov. Bob Taft on Friday approved one of the country’s most-far reaching gay marriage bans, saying adoption was urgent because the nation’s first legally sanctioned same-sex weddings could take place as early as this spring in Massachusetts.

The bill also prohibits state employees from getting marital benefits spelled out in state law for their unmarried partners, whether homosexual or heterosexual.

Approving the bill to make gay marriages “against the strong public policy of the state” became more pressing after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 this week that denial of marriage to same-sex couples as unconstitutional, Taft said.

“It is necessary for us to act now to safeguard Ohio’s marriage laws,” Taft said. “Ohio could have same-sex couples who were ’married’ in Massachusetts taking legal action in Ohio to recognize that marriage and to obtain the resulting benefits.”

Oh, and just for fun…..

Of course we won’t bother to go into Janet Jackson’s “rip tease” on prime time television where thousands of American children were watching.

Now I don’t know about you. But I feel like I am witnessing the fall of Western Civilization.

(Oh grow up Cupcake, old fogies have been freaked out by the next generation for centuries.)

Oh yeah? Well, let me tell you something Mush Muffin, if none of the above topics creates in you some level of “cognitive dissonance”, you have become the victim of the Trivialization Movement. I just looked that up in Webster’s. Here is the meaning:

Trivialize 2 a : of little worth or importance b : relating to or being the mathematically simplest case; specifically : characterized by having all variables equal to zero

This is what is happening in our society. All things, from some schools not giving grades or keeping score in sports, to some bozo on the radio the other day saying, “Hey, marriage, it’s just a word, right, what’s the big deal?”…. are being drawn down to the lowest common denominator. Equal to Zero.

If we don’t value, and discriminated between what is good and evil, or beneficial or detrimental to our society, soon whatever feels right to the individual will not only be accepted, but it will be legislated.

My friends, this state of affairs is called Anarchy.

Although to be sure, a new form of Anarchy. Anarchy decreed by “progressive” judges, without regard to the will of the society they are so willfully wrecking havoc upon.

And frankly, it is pretty easy to defend Anarchy. It seems compassionate. Why should I stand in the way of what makes some people comfortable and happy? Many behaviors can be justified in this broad way…..Until.

Until it is YOUR son or daughter that the pervert wants to molest. (Listen, don’t fool yourself, NAMBLA is just waiting its turn in the courts.) Or until an entire generation of children grows up realizing that they are fatherless or motherless, that they are the “product” of the science lab, and therefore answerable to no one.
Until the government is telling you how it is proper to think and if you object, sending you to class, to “train” you to think what is considered politically correct..…. today. Tomorrow, you may need more retraining because God only knows what the government will decree “proper thinking” later on.

I am heartily sick to death of the distortion of the idea that we are supposed to have all these “rights”. Listen my friends. What we have are responsibilities.
While there are certain “inalienable” rights of human equality, they do not, in my opinion extend to any and all behaviors that make me “feel good”.
I have a responsibility to behave in a manner that promotes the common good, not only my individual desires. And giving in to me because I want to eat baby livers is not promoting the “common good” of the baby now is it?

You will excuse my bitterness. But I am particularly sensitive to the shallow, one-dimensional discourse that passes for debate in this country. It seems we have lost all ability to fully explore the intricacies of the issues facing us, and instead, revert to a video clip of some sad faced person who is desperately unhappy because they cannot marry their goldfish and get full medical benefits for same. As if this is the ultimate argument, that has no rebuttal. “Look, someone is unhappy!” We must turn history, common sense and our entire society on its head because one person is unhappy.

Whatever happened to: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.”?

I cannot find who said that, except the references to Spock, and Surak, another Vulcan. But it has the ring of truth about it. And it is not just a Star Trek concept, I think it is one of those lasting universal ideas that is almost unspoken in a society. So basic it needs no explanation. Except when folly is the rule of the day. Then we have to state the obvious.

And pray that someone is listening.