Any person who voted for Barack Obama for the express purpose of having him utilize the US tax and regulatory apparatus to take money away from the rich and give it to them personally, is the moral equivalent of a bank robber. Neither I, nor any other person alive, is entitled to two red cents out of another person’s stash just because we don’t have as much.
– Repair Man Jack, contributor at Redstate (emphasis mine)
Mike Murphy complains that we Republicans have to get with the program – and get more secular. Well, this is what happens when morality goes unmoored from absolute values (in the case of the US, Judeo-Christian values) – exactly what Murphy is advocating. You see, we are bombarded from High Priests of Republican Political Operatives that Republicans are losing because of standing firm on Principles; yet, one of those Principles is “don’t steal”.
Democrats and Progressives have, for decades, pushed to remove religion from the public square under the rubric of “separation of Church and State”. They have done so at such a pace that it has become a societal meme. Speak up and you’re labeled as ‘shoving religion down my throat” or “oh, you want a theocracy” or even crazier: “who are you to be judgmental” (as if stealing, murder, adultery, <name your sin> is only a personal choice? And how dare you challenge my morality?
Thus, anything goes. What used to be verboten is welcomed. Some is goodness (black civil rights, for instance); some are definitely not (who ever thought that Govt could force you to buy a good or service simply for being able to breathe).
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