I almost always enjoy the WSJ's Bret Stephens but this column is mostly just repulsive. A sample:
Fellow conservatives, please stop obsessing about what other adults might be doing in their bedrooms, so long as it's lawful and consensual and doesn't impinge in some obvious way on you. This obsession is socially uncouth, politically counterproductive and, too often, unwittingly revealing.
First of all, what the hell is he taking about here? Democrats were the ones saying that that the election of Mitt Romney would result in a return to pre-Gwiswold America where contraception would be outlawed -- only this time it would nationwide.
Some more if you can stomach it:
Also, please tone down the abortion extremism. Supporting so-called partial-birth abortions, as too many liberals do, is abortion extremism. But so is opposing abortion in cases of rape and incest, to say nothing of the life of the mother. Democrats did better with a president who wanted abortion to be "safe, legal and rare"; Republicans would have done better by adopting former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels's call for a "truce" on social issues.
But Stephens here doesn't delineate between opposing abortion in all circumstances in principle but allowing that because government rests ultimately on public opinion, these exceptions are politically necessary. And even if you do buy into this logic, Stephens faults one side for being too oriented around life and the other for being too oriented around the death of a child but says that both sides are equally as "extreme." Hmmm.
And this is just rediculous:
By the way, what's so awful about Spanish? It's a fine European language with an outstanding literary tradition—Cervantes, Borges, Paz, Vargas Llosa—and it would do you no harm to learn it. Bilingualism is an intellectual virtue, not a deviant sexual practice.
I think Mr. Stephens should stick to foreign affairs. Leave this kind of stuff to people with higher IQ's.
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