For whatever it's worth, your post did not offend me. The drunken cow comment by American_Ranger did. I didn't see the “POS” post to which others had objected for quite some time since it was on another thread, and I probably would have held my fire on that one because abbreviations can have more than one meaning.
OW, I have no idea of your personal beliefs. We haven't discussed such matters. If you are an evangelical Christian, a conservative Roman Catholic, or an Orthodox Jew, I'd urge you to take a close look at the Scripture passages I referenced earlier.
Order and authority are important in society. Certain positions are entitled to respect. I certainly concur with you that people who have used powerful positions to encourage evil bear responsibility for their actions, but there are right and wrong ways to address people. Lavishing praise on people who are wrong because of their position is not right, but as I quoted earlier from Scripture...
I Timothy 5:1-2: “Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat ... older women as mothers...”
Leviticus 19:32: “Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.”
That doesn't mean we blindly obey older people just because they are old. As Psalm 119:99-100 says: “I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.”
What doesn't change with regard to political rulers and older people is that even if they're wrong, we still owe them the respect they're due.
Outlaw Womans post is NOT on another thread. It is Post 68 on THIS thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2745915/posts?page=68#68
“If Betty Ford stood for what I have read this evening, she was a POS.”