And my point is that what he wrote is NOT OFFENSIVE to anyone with even a slight knowledge of the numerous bizarre customs that actually exist on this planet.
When someone can make political hay from something as utterly insignificant as this, I then have to question the very integrity of the republican party.
If you claim moral outrage, shame on you.
I can site a dozen equally bizarre cultural traditions, and if I included them in a book, would I be a moral outcast in your eyes?
-Female circumcision
-Suspension by means of hooks inserted into the flesh
-Eating of peyote for religious purposes
-Oral maceration of casaba root as a means to make a fermented beverage
-The whipping of women and girls at Easter time
-Multiple wives
-Pagan bestiality
Ad infinitum. THIS is our world, too. Not just your anti-septic, homogenized, Disneyfied safe-room.
It is not a crime, a sin or even morally questionable to point out these practices as a means of coloring a story.
If you do not know that the context Webb's passage was a benign example of a strange cultural tradition, then educate yourself.
If you DO know it and choose to excoriate Webb still, then I for one, will never support you in that matter.
You said putting your little boys penis into your mouth is a BENIGN EXAMPLE???? PLEASE do NOT reply to me anymore because I think you and this are a little sick.
But I haven't.
And you claiming to hold me to your "shaming" stick is pretty funny, too.
Criminy!! You are the reincarnation of Margaret Mead.
Liberals have customs like putting crucifixes in urine and supporting anal intercourse too, but I don't want to read about it. Nor do I want to elect the artists who provide this filth.