Michael Gerson

A friend sent me this article about dating, sex, courtship, marriage. He thought it was pretty reasonable. So do I. What do we do in this culture of ours, where multiple early failed relationships really do cause such pain, but marrying early appears to not (always) be an option? Valid question.

Clearly, not valid to everyone. Same friend pointed me toward the comments, which are, wow, exceptionally rude, leading one friendly reader to write:

If these comments are an indication, [Washington Post] readers are angry, semi-literate, immature jerks.

I’d agree with that assessment.

Incidentally, this has happened to me–if you so much as breathe a word about being responsible about sexual things, if you so much as imply that perhaps sex anytime, any place isn’t serving everyone well–well, like little wind up toys the opposing voices will launch in unison with the requisite “she’s sexually repressed,” and far worse.

What fun!

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Brigitte has a suggestion: Embrace your inner crusty old goat! (And get your black belt – nobody calls you repressed when you’re wearing one of those.) OK, so that’s two suggestions.

The “consensus-building” candidate Barack Obama on abortion:

Obama’s record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called “too close to infanticide.” Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” because of a crisis pregnancy — hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life…

I’m reminded of Trish’s post from what seems like a long time ago now. “Yes we can” be virulently pro-abortion, “yes we can” oppose measures to save babies who are born alive after an abortion… But “can we” be president too? And that remains to be seen.

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Brigitte wonders: What would Mr. Obama say to one of his daughters asking: “Dad, are you saying you were punished with us?”

No minefield here, no, not at all

Obama’s extremism

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