Rebuked

A family member was castigating me for supporting conservative Christians and Hobby Lobby. She asked in disbelief how I could find common cause with them.

My reply is that, despite their sometimes excessive zeal and proselytizing, they are fairly gentle, tolerant civilized people. They believe that homosexuality is a freely chosen, deviant lifestyle and that marriage is a sacred sacrament between men and women. They believe that life begins at conception and that each fetus from conception has a soul, so to abort a baby at any stage up to birth is murder, because God commands us not to kill.

Now I agree with them mostly but not entirely, but here is not the time and place to digress into that. Like Confucius of old, I agree with conservatives that each individual--born rotten (my opinion at least)--requires moral training and wholesome upbringing to learn good habits that become so natural and personal that the person's soul, character, will and behavior are good and civilized behavior. If children are raised by a mother and father, married and devoted to raising their children of one of their primary reasons for living, then the children will make it. This is why I admire traditional Christians--they get all this.

The Left so hates America and all of Western Civilization that they believe that all is beyond redemption here. The only alternative is to wipe out everything in America and start over. Men are brutes, whites are irredeemably racist, and America is so unjust and rotten, that it must be wiped out forthwith.

If backers of Hobby Lobby and lovers of the Confederate flag speak their mind, I back them because we need all strains of conservatism front and center and united to withstand the insane, aggressive Left.