Tolerating Evil Is No Longer Tolerable

The Washington Dispatch ^ | 7/7/03 | Patrick Rooney

[abigail2]

Tolerating Evil Is No Longer Tolerable

Exclusive commentary by Patrick Rooney

July 7, 2003

I went to see a fireworks show on July fourth. No patriotic music or words, just twenty minutes of moderately interesting visual pyrotechnics. No one seemed to mind. Masses of people thought nothing of building their day around the fireworks, bringing barbeque, drink, and children, and enduring major traffic, crowds, and weary legs. For what, exactly?

I pondered fireworks, gutted of their symbolic meaning, as I went to bed. Course I didn’t get to sleep right away. There’s something about the periodic boom of nearby M-80s that has a way of well, waking you up. As I lay awake, I began to reflect on the perversion of July 4th. Fireworks, once meant to celebrate our freedom, are too often just another distraction for the bored, or worse, one more bludgeoning tool for the corrupt. I reflected further, and realized that just about everything good in America has been fashioned into a weapon to beat down our gates.

The law is a perfect example of this. Once it protected good and punished evil.

But in America today, according to the Supreme Court’s thirty-year-old ruling, you can legally kill an unborn child. In fact, you can “make a killing”—ching, ching—by killing children. If I were to defend this “right”, I’d be considered a hero, standing up for “women’s rights”. Now if I were to try to prevent such a killing by attempting to stop an abortion “doctor” or “patient” from killing a baby, I would go to jail. And needless to say, be written off as a right wing fascist.

In America today, according to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court, there is now a right to sodomy. If I were to defend this right, I’d be considered a human rights advocate. And if I refused to hire a sodomite or rent an apartment to a “gay” couple, I could be in big legal trouble. And of course I’d be called a Nazi.

Somewhere along the line contemporary society got this notion that we are more compassionate, more loving than our narrow forefathers. After all, they allowed slavery, killed animals, and smoked cigarettes.

So we became lenient with the guilty. More “humane” with the worst among us. And necessarily we became more harsh with the innocent.

Today we have a Republican President. A Republican majority in the House and Senate. A supposedly “conservative” Supreme Court. A growing army of conservative talk show hosts, authors, and columnists. And we’re losing ground. The federal government continues to grow, and our culture continues to spin out of control. Why?

Because we are too embarrassed to assert our morality. We have removed our morality from the national equation, thinking that it would be the polite thing to do, and we expected the same of our adversaries. But we did not count on the fact that they would act in bad faith, laughing at us as we backpedaled our values, and they gleefully inserted their amorality into the vacuum we left for them.

Evil is not fair. Evil is not just. Evil is not interested in a Mexican standoff. It’s a struggle to the death, and it’s about time we understood the commitment it will take to win. Our president understands this principle in the war on terror. He needs to understand that his attitude must be the same on every front, particularly our domestic security front. The time for politicking is gone. Politicking gets people killed in today’s world.

There is really only one way out. To realize the foolishness of our ways. To recognize the wisdom of our forefathers, that our “compassion” is merely leniency for evil, resulting in the dishonoring and ultimate dismembering of good.

America is a Christian nation. We are tolerant, yes, of the existence of other religions or no religion at all, but we can never be tolerant of evil.

Reclaiming our nation means reasserting our morality in every area of life: legal, medical, political, entertainment, and education. Particularly education. We are losing our young to the corrupt, and until that reverses, we will continue to suffer.

Tolerance for evil is clearly something we can no longer afford to tolerate.

Patrick Rooney is the Director of Special Projects at BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man.”

For more information, please visit www.bondinfo.org , call 1-800-411-BOND (2663), or write to feedback@washingtondispatch.com.

[abigail2]

Good article Patrick, Big bump for this...why are we so embarrassed to call a spade a spade? What happened to us?

[abigail2]

Today we have a Republican President. A Republican majority in the House and Senate. A supposedly “conservative” Supreme Court. A growing army of conservative talk show hosts, authors, and columnists. And we’re losing ground. The federal government continues to grow, and our culture continues to spin out of control. Why?

[Support Free Republic]

Hi Mom!

[abigail2]

Evil is not fair. Evil is not just. Evil is not interested in a Mexican standoff. It’s a struggle to the death, and it’s about time we understood the commitment it will take to win. Our president understands this principle in the war on terror. He needs to understand that his attitude must be the same on every front, particularly our domestic security front. The time for politicking is gone. Politicking gets people killed in today’s world.

[abigail2]

Hi Son!!

[Roscoe]

In America today, according to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court, there is now a right to sodomy. If I were to defend this right, I’d be considered a human rights advocate. And if I refused to hire a sodomite or rent an apartment to a “gay” couple, I could be in big legal trouble. And of course I’d be called a Nazi.

All too predictably.

[DoughtyOne]

Heh heh heh... because we've got to win one more election before we're positioned to activate the spine we installed three years ago.

We waited fifty years go be in the majority. We will wait fifty more years looking for a man who has a clue what to do with it.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

LOL

[Bob J]

Patrick writes well. I guess we need to sign him up to the Free Republic Columnists Corner.

[Constitutional Patriot]

Bump

[abigail2]

Hi Bob, Patrick is rebuildus, so let him know where to sign up!

[abigail2]

Somewhere along the line contemporary society got this notion that we are more compassionate, more loving than our narrow forefathers. After all, they allowed slavery, killed animals, and smoked cigarettes

[abigail2]

Hi D One..Meanwhile thugs are pouring in over our borders, laws are being put in place and removed that are truly shocking, children are being corrupted, degraded, dumbed down, murdered...

[autoresponder]

The tyranny of the minor ratty

[abigail2]

Thanks for the bump...

[abigail2]

minor ratty ...LOL! It took me a while to get that! Too early in the morning.

[abigail2]

Reclaiming our nation means reasserting our morality in every area of life: legal, medical, political, entertainment, and education. Particularly education. We are losing our young to the corrupt, and until that reverses, we will continue to suffer.

And don't forget business, I have been thinking how powerful business could be if it wanted...

[abigail2]

Hi Mrs _Yans, thanks for the LOL!

[SAMWolf]

Today we have a Republican President. A Republican majority in the House and Senate. A supposedly “conservative” Supreme Court. A growing army of conservative talk show hosts, authors, and columnists. And we’re losing ground. The federal government continues to grow, and our culture continues to spin out of control.

Great article. This paragraph is the one that irks me the most. I'm beginning to believe there is nothing we can do to change things anymore. The Libs are still getting their agenda passed even though they technically aren't in control anymore. Most of the Republicans won't stand up to them and keep caving into the minority.

[abigail2]

Yes, me too! How about here in Mexifornia, businessmen refuse to do business with anyone except in ENGLISH!

[rebuildus]

Good morning, Abby. Thanks for da bumps!

[abigail2]

Tolerance for evil is clearly something we can no longer afford to tolerate.

[abigail2]

Hi intolerant one!!

[abigail2]

Reclaiming our nation means reasserting our morality in every area of life: legal, medical, political, entertainment, and education. Particularly education. We are losing our young to the corrupt, and until that reverses, we will continue to suffer.

[abigail2]

Reclaiming our nation means reasserting our morality in every area of life: legal, medical, political, entertainment, and education. Particularly education. We are losing our young to the corrupt, and until that reverses, we will continue to suffer.

[abigail2]

Patrick, this is Michelle. I found your article very true. Keep up the good work. Perhaps you are interested in running for a political office. We need smart, intelligent, and aware leaders like you in office.

[MHGinTN]

place marker

[MHGinTN]

Well done article! ... Here's a link to a similar theme. You may wish to note the type and degree of negatives tossed in by posters.

[boris]

The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[DoughtyOne]

Yep. Thank God it's our team in there. LOL

[gcruse]

And if I refused to hire a sodomite or rent an apartment
 to a “gay” couple, I could be in big legal trouble.

Not long ago, the same was enacted for blacks.  Was
that bad, too?

Not long before that, the same applied to the Irish.
Was that bad, too?

America isn't the home of, "F**k you  Jack, I've
got mine.  Pull up the ladder!"  But many of us
think that way, calling ourselves moral, and just
like Jesus.

[rebuildus]

Sodomy is a learned behavior, black is an inborn color. Huge difference.

[gcruse]

Using a paddleball is also a learned behavior. So what?
Whatever consenting adults chose to do in their love life
is no concern of an employer or a landlord.

[abigail2]

YEs, I have to admit that 'our' team is a much better by far conglomeration of leaders.

[abigail2]

Thanks for the link, good article.

[abigail2]

Thanks for the poem...I remember it from some far recess in my mind.

[AD from SpringBay]

Did you happen to read the title?

[abigail2]

Black is a skin color not a perverted way of life. I have a choice to help those who I chose to help if and when I chose to. To me that is what being an American is about. If a sodomist wants to change, good for him, but if he doesn't, I don't have to associate with him.

[Jhoffa_]

What happened to us?

We became arrogant.

And I completely agree with his point on fireworks.

It's a small thing, but it illustrates well how we take something sacred, or somethign that's deserving of reverence and respect and commercialize it to the point it becomes un-recognizable.

The 4th isn't about fireworks, just as Christmas isn't about presents, Easter isn't about eggs, thanksgiving isn't about turkeys and so on and so forth.

We commemorate something and then we come right back and convolute & confuse it till any importance it may have previously had is well hidden.

[abigail2]

Sodomy is not 'love life' it is death life...AIDS anyone?

[Kevin Curry]

Using a paddleball is also a learned behavior. So what?

So if I'm a landlord and I don't want tenants playing paddleball in their apartments, it goes into the lease and if they violate it they're out on their butts.

They can come rent from you and you can play paddleball with them.

[abigail2]

Yes, indeedy. You are right.

[abigail2]

You're absolutely right. Businessmen should exercise their right to do business and employ anyone they want as well. Thanks.

[gcruse]

Okay, Kevie, make a lease prohibiting fags from renting your apartment, then tell me how Americans are all entitled to the same rights.

[abigail2]

Americans are entitled to earn money and buy their own house or business and rent to whomever they want...

[gcruse]

The individual's right to freely exercise his or her liberty is not dependent upon whether the majority believes such exercise to be moral, dishonorable, or wrong. Simply because something is beyond the pale of "majoritarian morality" does not place it beyond the scope of constitutional protection. To allow the moral indignation of a majority (or, even worse, a loud and/or radical minority) to justify criminalizing private consensual conduct would be a strike against freedoms paid for and preserved by our forefathers.

---The Georgia Supreme Court

[gcruse]

Americans are entitled to earn money and buy their own
house or business and rent to whomever they want...

No, you are wrong.  You cannot discriminate based
on religion, for one thing, in renting out property.

[abigail2]

We have said that Congress may regulate not only 'Commerce…among the several states,'…but also anything that has a 'substantial effect' on such commerce. This test, if taken to its logical extreme, would give Congress a 'police power' over all aspects of American life.

Under our jurisprudence, if Congress passed an omnibus 'substantially affects interstate commerce' statute, purporting to regulate every aspect of human existence, the Act apparently would be constitutional. </>

Found this on your profile page. Justice Thomas went on to state that under the substantially affects interstate commerce test adopted by the Court, "[c]ongress can regulate whole categories of activities that are not themselves either 'interstate or commerce.'"

[gcruse]

Yup. Pretty frightening, innit?

[Jhoffa_]

It's to the point that I would support anyone discriminating on any basis, any time, any where for any thing.

I am so sick of protected, minority classes burdening the majority.

Just, let everyone discriminate at will and keep government out of the picture, if this is the best they can do.

IMO, the Free market will pick up the slack.