Liberals Hate You
It doesn’t take a lot of digging to find contempt for Western values (especially American) at the heart of liberalism. Now that they’ve had the driver’s seat for a couple of years, and owned academia since before Buckley wrote his famous exposé, the contempt for all of us is coming to the surface. It’s ugly.
Two interesting cases from San Francisco, a city that was once thought of as being as straight-laced as Boston–if you can believe that was once straight-laced too. The first (via Taranto’s “Best of the Web” yesterday) points out that San Francisco is so determined to protect handouts to favored minorities (like women, who make up more than 50 percent of the population) that they’ve essentially sued themselves for discrimination:
The state Supreme Court rejected San Francisco’s constitutional challenge to California’s ban on race-conscious affirmative action programs Monday, saying the government is not required to allow racial preferences.
The decision quotes from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ legislative findings in 2003, when it enacted the most recent ordinance (citation omitted):
The Board found that “the race- and gender-conscious remedial programs authorized by [the . . .] Ordinance continue to be necessary to remedy discrimination against minority- and women-owned businesses in City prime contracting and subcontracting.” The Board also found “that the City . . . is actively discriminating against women and minority groups in its contracting, and is passively participating in discrimination in the private sector.”You read that right. San Francisco officials claim that they have to discriminate against whites and men because they discriminate against minorities and women!
Why in the world don’t they just stop discriminating?
The next bit is pretty well-known–San Francisco suing because it can’t stand democracy in action when the stoopid people won’t vote the right way:
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge in San Francisco will disclose his decision today on whether California’s same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker is ruling in a lawsuit brought by two same-sex couples seeking to overturn Proposition 8, which outlaws gay marriage.
Liberals love America only when it does as it’s told.
People like to accuse the Church of that kind of behavior, and I won’t deny that there are plenty of grouchy Catholics in the laity and the clergy who hate the sin and aren’t too thrilled with the sinner, either. But two things to bear in mind:
1. The Church’s love for all mankind in institutional, not incidental, and hatred of others is in violation of its most fundamental principles; and
2. The Church can claim a much higher authority for its actions than the City of San Friggin’ Cisco can.
So remember, kiddies: Liberals hate you, and they don’t much care if you know it anymore.
