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In a column published 12/15, Star Parker praised the patriotism of Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who held up hundreds of promotions in the military for months in an attempt to block abortion for soldiers and their families.
The columnist called him courageous for doing so as a Pro-Lifer.
She also bemoaned that as of March 2023, only 38 of those responding to a poll said patriotism is very important, but not to those under the age of 30. Only 23 percent said it was important, compared to 70 percent in 1998.
One of our most recent presidents evaded the draft, and insulted heroes such as Sen. John McCain, a former POW. The same poltroon waves the flag and brandishes the Bible ad nauseam, so he is a patriot to his blindly allegiant base.
Ms. Parker worried about the major decline in the value of religion in our culture, citing 39 percent who said it is very important, compared to 62 percent in 1998.
Recently a 10-year-old was raped, became pregnant, and had to cross a state line to get an abortion. The church's silence was deafening.
Could it be that misguided, unprincipled, long-term defeatist motivations are behind that gradual switch from spiritual religion to commercialized religiosity?
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, appointed in 1970, said, "I've learned that feet today are indeed made of clay. That there seems to be an element of larceny and the unethical in so many people, that man's inhumanity to man still prevails."
Alan Mei
Kihei