Can One Nation Have Two Moralities? - By Pat Buchanan

[DonViejo]

Same-sex marriage is an absurdity to traditionalists—and tradition is bigotry to the new moralists.

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • March 29, 2013

“Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville.

Yet, judged by the standards of those old “pulpits aflame with righteousness,” is America still a good country?

Consider the cases taken up this week by the Supreme Court.

In one, the court is asked to rule on California’s Proposition 8, where voters declared marriage to be solely between a man and a woman. In the second, the court is asked to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, which forbids federal support for same-sex marriages.

Whatever their beliefs, the justices, one trusts, will leave this to the states and people. For Roe v. Wade, where seven justices found the right to an abortion lurking in the penumbras of the Ninth Amendment, poisons our politics to this day. We don’t need a re-enactment of that civil war.

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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/can-one-nation-have-two-moralities/

[MotherPetrie]

1. Dear Mr. Buchanan: Pfffft!

[AndyA]

2. Shut up, bigot!

Go back to your cave, most of the country wants to move forward instead of returning to the dark ages.

[winter is coming]

3. Yeah, I've changed my mind about gay marriage

because of what some dead French guy wrote in the 19th century.

[bowens43]

4. nations dont have moralities dumbass.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Alexis de Tocqueville saw 'righteousness aflame' in a country with chattle slavery.

Very righteous stuff, human trafficking in between religious meetings. Of course that's not a problem for Pat.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. No.

But I will help you pack your bags, Mr Buchanan.

[Orsino]

7. Can one brain have only two cells?

Can one pundit learn of the existence of multiple points of view? Can one desperate old bigot ever stop oversimplifying everything?

[DavidDvorkin]

8. de Tocqueville never said that

even though rightwingers love to claim that he did.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville

[liberal_at_heart]

9. I thought conservatives hated Europeans. Why is he quoting a Frenchman?

Buchanan is an idiot.

[Johonny]

10. Pat Buchanan doesn't even have one morality

[Avalux]

11. Pat Buchanan can shove his hate-filled morality up his tight, bigoted ass.

There is only one morality, treat others as you wish to be treated, regardless of their skin color, gender, social status, sexual orientation or religion.

[olddots]

12. just when you think the world might be progressing

Along comes the hateful old sack of shit & venom out from under his bar stool .

he went to the Joe McCarthy Charm School soon to be renamed Ted Cruz U.

[dawg]

13. It isn't moral to deny basic rights to people ...

just because they are different from you.

[David Zephyr]

14. This lecture about "morality" comes from a Nazi sympathizer?

Pat Buchanan, like his father, is a Nazi sympathizer.

Pat's career was nurtured in his defense of Nazi's and their atrocities.

His morality is only in his sick brain.

One million Jewish children were murdered by the people Pat and his father admired.

Five million more Jewish women and men were murdered by the people Pat and his father admired.

As to homosexuals, 1/4 million homosexuals were murdered by the people that Pat and his father admired.

That's all anyone needs to know about Pat Buchanan to know he will forever be a piece of shit.