{"id":718,"date":"2011-07-14T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/07\/basic-leftist-morality\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T20:35:40","slug":"basic-leftist-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/07\/basic-leftist-morality.html","title":{"rendered":"Basic Leftist Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Sex is morally neutral. Every perversion is to be celebrated as \u201cdiversity\u201d and the State has the right to force that down your kid\u2019s throat from kindergarten onward. If you resist, the state should have the right to take your kid away from you, particularly if you are acting on religious principle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Food, on the other hand, is fraught with puritanical moral implications and the state should have the right to take your kid away from you if Caesar decides he\u2019s too fat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You may have noticed that the common thread here is \u201cCaesar should have more and more power to take your kid away from you on specious grounds\u201d. That\u2019s not an accident. Lefties love privileging State power over the family as much as corporatists love privileging corporate power and profit over the family.<\/p>\n

Moral: Put the family, not the state or the corporation, first in our thinking and we will have a sane civilization. Set yourself up to think the sole alternatives we have are state or corporation and you will guarantee a mad world.<\/p>\n

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