Posted on 10/10/2017 6:58:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom's instruction." (Proverbs 29:18)
Ancient wisdom from a Higher Authority, which is available to anyone who takes the time to consider it, was provided to constrain people like Harvey Weinstein from acts he has been accused of committing.
In an age when we have cast off most restraints -- from restrictions on abortion to sanctioning same-sex marriage to normalizing the use of nudity, crude language and sex in Hollywood films, not to mention wisdom -- why is anything off limits? Who decides where the limits are these days? And on what do they base their decision?
Haven't some federal judges been eviscerating the U.S. Constitution for decades? Haven't even some clergy made attempts to rewrite or ignore Scripture to conform to opinion polls and align themselves with contemporary trends?
Many Republicans and conservatives are joyfully berating and belittling Harvey Weinstein and his fellow leftists, but they should remind themselves that sin is not exclusive to one party or political persuasion. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) resigned his office last week after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obtained text messages between Murphy and his mistress in which he told her to have an abortion if she thought she might be pregnant. Murphy, who claims to be "pro-life," co-sponsored a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks.
Much newspaper ink is being spilled and nightly news time spent discussing Weinstein after an investigative story by The New York Times in which many women, who claim to have been harassed in the most disgusting ways imaginable, have come forward to tell their stories. On Sunday, Weinstein was fired by his own company.
Lisa Bloom, who resigned last Saturday as an adviser to Weinstein, made the laughable claim that he is a "dinosaur" who came of age at a time when such behavior was more acceptable. Really? Acceptable to whom? Hugh Hefner, maybe, who fired the first shot in the sexual revolution. Aren't victims of unwelcome sexual advances just some of the casualties of that revolution?
Hypocrisy is a word that is thrown around a lot. Conservatives are guffawing that Weinstein, who is a Democrat, was also an enthusiastic supporter and donor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. The Republican National Committee issued a press release demanding Democratic politicians who received donations from Weinstein return the money. Republicans are not immune from the temptations of the flesh and boorish, even criminal, behavior. In addition to Murphy, you can Google "Republicans and sex scandals" and read some of them.
Denunciations of Weinstein are coming from all quarters of the political spectrum, though the Hollywood crowd has been mostly silent. His critics presuppose a standard by which such behavior can be judged. But we are ridding ourselves of most standards faster than a snake sheds its skin. What did we expect the outcome to look like?
Are our moral life and collective notions of right and wrong to be decided by opinion polls and personal feelings, or is there a "Higher Authority" that should rule over individuals, as well as nations? The question should not be rhetorical. It demands an answer.
This quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld seems to fit our reaction to the Weinstein affair, as well as many others: "Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue." Once again, questions should be asked in this increasingly morally vacuous age: what is "vice" and what is "virtue"? Who gets to decide? On what shall the definitions be based?
Weinstein needs help that no counselor can fully offer. Only a transformed life can help him become a new and different man. And such help can only come from a Higher Authority.
Many Republicans and conservatives are joyfully berating and belittling Harvey Weinstein and his fellow leftists, but they should remind themselves that sin is not exclusive to one party or political persuasion. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) resigned his office last week after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obtained text messages between Murphy and his mistress in which he told her to have an abortion if she thought she might be pregnant. Murphy, who claims to be “pro-life,” co-sponsored a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks.
OH NO, not a limit of 5 months along as the end point of an abortion. WHAT A HATER. He sounds moderate to me, anything after 12 weeks was the selling point back in 1976.
It’s not a democrat-republican issue.
It’s an issue of power and dominance, and those who are addicted to it gravitate to positions of power, whether in politics or the private sector.
These are the same people that praise Bill Clinton and adore him .........and he was accused of doing much worse than Weinstein, much, much worse............
The point is that when man gets to decide right and wrong, anything goes.
You only need to look at pagans and religion before Christianity.
Human sacrifice was common. Kill any or enslave any less strong than you.
Christianity broke that cycle.
Islam enlarged and embraced it.
Conservatives are berating Democrats over Weinstein due to THEIR hypocrisy for berating Trump and any conservative politician and essentially asking for their political life for SAYING something uncouth in private. Meanwhile libs fall all over each other defending the likes of Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Weinstein who are guilty of much worse, up to sexual assault and definitely sexual harassment. Sorry, but it is incumbent on us to make hay of these events as a way to educate people as to the moral emptiness of the Democrat party (including their so-called feminists and anti-racists) for the good of the nation.
Weinsteins abuses were no secret.
Your point is lost on Cal Thomas.
He has some latent liberal tendencies.
Absolutely. It's a solid Alinksy tactic -- "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
Also, Hollywood's hypocrisy about sexual harassment is the gateway to the Globalist pedophilia scandal. That's where we need to focus. Harvey is our foot in the door.
I don’t “get” the hype. After all this “anything goes” culture shift over the past 20 years, I’m surprised anybody even notices Weinstein. He is just another example, in a thousand I could document, that is perverse.
I hereby predict that when all the pedophile stuff is exposed, it will make Harvey look like an innocent choirboy.
HILLARY: "Oh Harvey. You had my campaign slogan, I'm With Her, tattooed on your penis."
HARVEY: "No pictures, please. I'll show Hillary in private."
Is there any difference between Bill Clinton and Weinstein’s sexual predation?
I wonder what dark secrets Cal has? : )
DRUDGE has a link to remarks made from fashion designer, Donna Karin, that clears the sinuses. Karin was interviewed at an event on the subject of Weinstein.
For me, her words were a worthy sermonette, and she proved to be a very astute woman speaking off the cuff.
A shocked and greatly teed off female Hollywood responds to Donna Karin, with no small degree of rage, for asking women what they are “asking for”, in the way they dress and how they present themselves.
It was a simple little sentence Donna Karin uttered, but it certainly set the fury off.
Karin is an odd looking little thing, at age 69, flashing a broad smile ear to ear, that she used to punctuate almost every sentence.
Get this..
She alluded to the very real plight of brutality against women occurring around the world that we know about and in some places she has visited, and then she lands her point about women in America, how they dress, behave and present themselves.
Think about it. I thought to myself what a clear way to teach young girls and women to wake up and to ditch the trend to always look and behave like .... well,... never mind.
Saying “women are asking for it” is Karan begging for the
feminist guillotine.
Go sit in a courtoom. “Asking for it” is the standard excuse of rapists and other sex abusers.
Child molesters frequently say their victims “asked for it.”
These disturbed nutcases actually think little children are flirting w/ them.....and that this is a “come on.”
Sickoes.
Wait a minute, pedophile has to do with sexually abusing children, doesn’t it? I thought Weinstein abuses women sexually? Of course some if not many are willing to be abused by that perp.
Definitely bad timing for Donna Karin to address the “NO CLOTHES” culture of Hollywood, I get it. She will be lucky to ever work in Hollywood again, right? Her being pals with Weinstein and his wife also didn’t help, and then she chooses to address apples and cleavage. Yikes!
Nevertheless, I was struck by her broader international cultural point, (her observation that in so many non-Western nations, for women justice is rarely an option, rape or worse is ignored, or the female victim of it is tortured and killed) which I thought was valid.
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