Posted on 06/23/2010 3:24:00 PM PDT by Syncro
WHAT A SACK OF SACROSANCT
June 23, 2010
In The New York Times' profile on the family of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, her aunt was quoted as saying: "There was thinking, always thinking" at the family's dinner table. "Nothing was sacrosanct."
Really? Nothing was sacrosanct? Because in my experience, on a scale of 1-to-infinity, the range of acceptable opinion among New York liberals goes from 1-to-1.001.
How would the following remarks fare at a dinner table on the Upper West Side where "nothing was sacrosanct": Hey, maybe that Joe McCarthy was onto something. What would prayer in the schools really hurt? How do we know gays are born that way? Is it possible that union demands have gone too far? Does it make sense to have three recycling bins in these microscopic Manhattan apartments? Say, has anyone read Charles Murray's latest book?
Those comments, considered "conversation starters" in most of the country, would get you banned from polite society in New York. Also, unless you want the whole room slowly backing away from you, also avoid: May I smoke? I heard it on Fox News and Merry Christmas!
Even members of survivalist Christian cults in Idaho at least know people who hold opposing views. New York liberals don't.
As Kagan herself described it, on the Upper West Side of New York where she grew up, "Nobody ever admitted to voting Republican." So, I guess you could say being a Democrat was "sacrosanct."
Even within the teeny-tiny range of approved liberal opinion in New York, disagreement will get you banned from the premises.
When, as dean of the Harvard Law School, Kagan disagreed with the Bill Clinton policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" for gays in the military, she open-mindedly banned military recruiters from the law school, denouncing Clinton's policy as "discriminatory," "deeply wrong," "unwise and unjust."
From this, I conclude that having gays serving openly in the military is "sacrosanct" for liberals.
Having gays NOT serve in the military is a position held by lots of people in other parts of the country, but I do not recall any Christian colleges banning military recruiters because the schools believed "Don't ask, don't tell" went too far the other way.
Not only is every weird, shared delusion of the New York liberal deemed sacrosanct, but what ought to be sacrosanct -- off the top of my head, human life -- isn't.
As Stan Evans says, whatever liberals disapprove of, they want banned (smoking, guns, practicing Christianity, ROTC, the Pledge of Allegiance) and whatever they approve of, they make mandatory (abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, pornography, condom distribution in public schools, screenings of "An Inconvenient Truth").
When liberals say, "nothing is sacrosanct," they mean "nothing other Americans consider sacrosanct is sacrosanct." They demonstrate their open-mindedness by ridiculing other people's dogma, but will not brook the most trifling criticism of their own dogmas.
Thus, for example, liberals sneer at the bluenoses and philistines of the "religious right" for objecting to taxpayer-funding of a crucifix submerged in a jar of urine, but would have you banned from public life for putting Matthew Shepard in a jar of urine, with or without taxpayer funding.
Read more at Ann Coulter.Com
-- Who is a greater threat to America, Sarah Palin or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?Read the rest at Ann Coulter.Com
And how might the Times refer to citizens booing a mayor who had withdrawn taxpayer funding for a painting of Rosa Parks covered in pornography?Not mention cow dung. It's alright for a Christian religious historical figure though.
Another excellent article from Ann.
In The New York Times' profile on the family of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, her aunt was quoted as saying: "There was thinking, always thinking" at the family's dinner table. "Nothing was sacrosanct."My guess is that there was a LOT more interesting "thinking" going on around the COULTER dinner table than there was around the KAGAN dinner table. :o)
From www.time.com/time/covers/1101050425/gallery:
COURTESY ANN COULTER The Youngest
Coulter with her older brothers Jim and John
I love Ann.
I never see that photo of younger Annie that so cute
Wow grate pic RonDog!
And look who appears to be the loudest. LOL!
BTW, I know how to spill misspell
She’s great. Always. :)
Another refreshing dose of common sense.
Great article. Ann exposes New York liberals as the hypocrites they are.
You misspelled “misspells”...
;)
“Mispells”
LMBO!!
Good one. It’s like an enigma wrapped in a riddle.
Or something.
sac·ro·sanct
Pronunciation: \ˈsa-krō-ˌsaŋ(k)t\Function: adjectiveEtymology: Latin sacrosanctus, probably from sacro sanctus hallowed by a sacred riteDate: 16011 : most sacred or holy : inviolable
2 : treated as if holy : immune from criticism or violation <politically sacrosanct programs>
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