05-14-2016, 01:21 PM
My thoughts:
1. There are scores of millions of Americans - heavily skewed toward the older generations still alive today, and toward certain regions; i.e., the South, and Rocky Mountain states like Idaho and Montana - who will go to their graves believing that transvestitism - see Deuteronomy 22:5 - is an abomination. No one is ever going to change their hearts and minds. As Barry Goldwater so correctly pointed out, you can't legislate love.
2. There will never be one-size-fits-all moral standards in this country. The last time we tried to impose such standards, the result was a literally fratricidal war that was eight times as deadly as World War II on a per-capita basis.
3. On Wall Street they have a saying: "Bulls make money and bears make money, but hogs get slaughtered." Similarly, in politics, donkeys win elections and elephants win elections, but hogs get slaughtered: If one side or the other insists on winning every single battle, on every single front, that side will invariably lose the war.
1. There are scores of millions of Americans - heavily skewed toward the older generations still alive today, and toward certain regions; i.e., the South, and Rocky Mountain states like Idaho and Montana - who will go to their graves believing that transvestitism - see Deuteronomy 22:5 - is an abomination. No one is ever going to change their hearts and minds. As Barry Goldwater so correctly pointed out, you can't legislate love.
2. There will never be one-size-fits-all moral standards in this country. The last time we tried to impose such standards, the result was a literally fratricidal war that was eight times as deadly as World War II on a per-capita basis.
3. On Wall Street they have a saying: "Bulls make money and bears make money, but hogs get slaughtered." Similarly, in politics, donkeys win elections and elephants win elections, but hogs get slaughtered: If one side or the other insists on winning every single battle, on every single front, that side will invariably lose the war.
