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Gay Marriage: The NY Times to Mayor Bloomberg: Break the Law -- or Else
Men's News Daily ^ | 1 April 2004 | Nicholas Stix

Posted on 04/01/2004 12:00:11 PM PST by mrustow

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To: mrustow
Nicholas Stix is a treasure.

Such clear thinking.

The NYT is run by the Gay Mafia.

41 posted on 04/02/2004 11:13:35 AM PST by happygrl (Al Qaeda told the people of Spain in no uncertain terms how they were expected to vote.)
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After all, what sort of damage has the Left done over the years, from championing ontologically guilty criminals like Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, Mumia Abu Jamal, Rose Shakur, the Weather Underground and Daniel Ellsberg, to trying to steal the 2000 election, to stopping effective measures to control AIDS, to throwing the Vietnamese War and condemning millions of Southeast Asians to die?

Leftists in America are striving to compile a body count to earn their place in the Black Book of Communism.

42 posted on 04/02/2004 11:18:08 AM PST by happygrl (Al Qaeda told the people of Spain in no uncertain terms how they were expected to vote.)
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You get no argument from me.
43 posted on 04/02/2004 12:45:20 PM PST by mrustow
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To: mrustow
Was that the article by the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan?

Spurred by your prompt, I went back into my disorderly clippings "file" and found it after some resolute digging. (Other goodies: national newsmag article "Why Not Real Gun Control?" -- yeah, right.)

The real title was "Defining Deviancy Up", and it was an elaboration on Moynihan's article by Charles Krauthammer in The New Republic, November 1993. It was the cover article, and the cover featured an old Kodachrome of dad coming home to his family after a day in the office, circa 1953 -- distorted, so we can see how sick that image is supposed to be now, how pathological in the sense that Susan Sontag meant it when she said that "the white race is the cancer of the planet".

BTW, Krauthammer, in citing Moynihan, gives the publication of Moynihan's article as The American Scholar; I don't know which is correct.

Sample quote from Krauthammer's article:

There is a complementary social phenomenon that goes with defining deviancy down. As part of the vast social project of moral leveling, it is not enough for the deviant to be normalized. The normal must be found to be deviant.....Large areas of ordinary behavior hitherto considered benign have had their threshold radically redefined up, so that once innocent behavior now stand condemned as deviant. Normal middle-class life stands exposed as the true home of violence and abuse and a whole catalog of aberrant acting and thinking.

As part of this project of moral leveling, entirely new areas of deviancy -- such as date rape and politically incorrect speech -- have been discovered. And old areas -- such as child abuse -- have been amplified by endless reiteration in the public presses and validated by learned reports of their astonishing frequency. The net effect is to show that deviancy is not the province of criminals and crazies but thrives in the heart of the great middle class. The real deviants of society stand unmasked. Who are they? Not Bonnie and Clyde but Ozzie and Harriet. True, Ozzie and Harriet have long been the object of ridicule. Now, however, they are under indictment.

The moral deconstruction of middle-class normality is a vast project. Fortunately, thousands of volunteers are working the case. By defining deviancy up they have scored some notable successes. Three, in particular. And in precisely the areas Moynihan identified: family life, crime and thought disorders.


44 posted on 04/02/2004 2:26:34 PM PST by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
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I'll take Charlie Kraut's word for it, that it was The American Scholar. Joe Epstein was the editor back then, and he published some important essays, including several of the ones which went on to become Shelby Steele's collection, The Content of Our Character.

And thanks for the powerful passage from Mr. Charlie, who sure knew what he was talking about, in giving a powerful summation of a phenomenon which has since consolidated its takeover of American culture.

45 posted on 04/02/2004 4:15:58 PM PST by mrustow
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