A friend of mine, Don Grant, received an email link from a colleague, Lisa Frost, for a letter to the editor she wrote that was published in the Siskiyou Daily News (Ashland, OR). Following is Mr. Grant’s response to Ms. Frost’s points. The exchange clarifies the opposing sides on the issue of life.
Lisa Frost’s Follow-up: I'm sorry you have become so right winged minded. Perhaps you have been with your partner(s) too long. I'm referring to your religious spouse and republican business partner.
I am not only pro choice, but pro abortion as a means of birth control. I am also anti-illegal immigration and anti-Palin.
Palin doesn't study or read. She couldn't even name a periodical that she has read in the Couric interview. Research her educational background. Listen to her talk "doggone it." She's an opportunist and anti environmentalist.
"...and you betcha" drilling would only satisfy 3% of our needs anyway. Why destroy the last frontier for this meager amount of oil.
Population growth is the main culprit of the environmental demise. Vote Obama/Badin for change and hope. Sorry to hear you have changed so drastically. We have certainly grown apart in our ideologies.
Lisa
Don Grant’s Follow-up: Lisa,
You cannot expect to send out a mass e-mailing containing unsupportable liberal dribble without at least one person disagreeing with your ideology and responding to it. As I recall, I wasn’t the only person to respond to your comments. In a democracy, there needs to be a dialogue about political and ideological issues. It’s not just a one-way street. If you expect everyone to agree with you, then the discussion becomes a monologue not a dialogue. It’s simply a “circle jerk” amongst a group of persons who are afraid to dissent or to think and who get off on chatting deceptive slogans: “DRILL, DRILL, DRILL; KILL, KILL, KILL.”
From the e-mails of you and others, I can only assume the following:
- Liberals will sleep with Republicans, but will not have dinner with them under, ostensibly, the premises that no political intercourse can occur in the horizontal position;
- Liberals do not have an ethical or moral basis for much of their ideology either because
(A) they refuse to think about morals and ethics;
(B) they have a relativistic and inconsistent moral and ethical basis for their ideology; or
(C) they are truly afraid to have their ethical and moral bankruptcy exposed for what it is;
- Liberals, despite their claim of “tolerance,” are very narrow-minded people who simply do not tolerate any dissent from their ideology or agendas;
- Liberals refuse to debate the issues on the facts, but almost always resort to ad hominen arguments, personal attacks, “red herring” arguments, name calling (instead of debating in an honest and intelligible fashion) which are logical fallacies most people learn to avoid in high school;
- Liberals get extremely upset when challenged to support their dribble on intelligible, moral and ethical bases;
- Liberals have an overriding ideology which drives which facts they use to support their arguments and, on many issues, which distorts the factual record in a biased manner;
- Liberals have a bankrupt moral and ethical basis for their screaming “choice” in opposing the protection of unborn and just born human life, yet decry hunting and killing animals and support the government’s becoming involved in other personal sexual decisions such as polygamy, sex with animals, and sex with minors because apparently liberals want the government involved in our sexual lives, but they want to define the extent of that involvement consistently with their ideology without any moral or ethical basis for this intrusion;
- Liberals vow to allow the indiscriminate killing of human life under guise of an ideology which believes that human life is bad for the planet and environment; thus a higher life form (human life) is sacrificed at the sacred alter of radical environmentalism.
Hey, this list could go on and on. I simply urge you to chant “THINK, THINK, THINK” instead of other mindless slogans and to really think about the ethical and moral basis for your liberal views.
I am not interested in receiving future e-mails from you which call me names such as “asshole,” and which suggest that I am influenced by my “religious wife” and “Republican business partner” when you, in fact, are ignorant of their true religious and political views.
Unlike many liberals, I arrive at my opinions after researching the issues and not by osmosis and not by simply copying the “talking points” of organizations.
