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Remember when former Secretary of State Madelyn Albright
introduced Hillary Clinton at an event in New Hampshire last year, tellng the
crowd that "there was a special place in hell for women who don’t help
each other?" The phrase is catching on!
Ivanka Trump, speaking about the sexual abuse allegations
against Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, told the Associated Press that
there’s a "special place in hell for people who prey on children . . .
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And then there is former Clinton adviser and Democratic strategist
Doug Schoen who said that there was "a special place in hell" for
Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who, after accepting endorsements, funding,
and support from the Clintons — and assuming Clinton’s Senate seat — recently
said that Bill Clinton should have resigned the presidency after the affair
with Monica Lewinsky.
If Gillibrand deserved a special place in hell for being
ungrateful to the Clintons, why not LaVar Ball, father of UCLA basketball
player LiAngelo Ball, one of the three UCLA basketball players arrested in
China for shoplifting, who were released after President Trump intervened with
Chinese President Xi.
Ball said that Trump didn’t deserve any credit for
getting his son and his two teammates released; and, that if he was "going
to thank somebody, I’d probably thank President Xi."
Talk about ingratitude. No wonder Trump called him an
"ungrateful fool."
He should talk to the family of American college student
Otto Warmbier who died a few days after returning home in a vegetative state coma
from North Korean detention.
As my friend Richie said, Ball’s son’s conduct shows how
"horrible a job he did as a father in raising a son who grew up thinking
it was okay to steal. He should be thanking the president!"
Many would argue that, if any group merits a reserved
seat in that "special place," it is those feminists and
left-wing women who looked the other way when any of their liberal male
politicos were accused of sexual harassment or misconduct.
Silence was and is the rule!
The National Organization of Women (NOW) and other
women’s groups did not go on the warpath against Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., for
his philandering, including being involved in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
They were also silent during the travails of former President Bill Clinton and
the many allegations of sexual misconduct including the Lewinsky affair.
And, note that they have not called for the resignation
of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., based on the allegations of sexual misconduct by
two women.
It’s a virtual certainty that they will not call for the
resignation of Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the longest serving member in the
U.S. House and the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, as has
his hometown paper the Detroit Free Press, for allegations of sexual misconduct.
And of course, they would not dare attack or criticize a black liberal
Democrat.
You can also be assured that the most vocal female
members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who are so high and mighty against
Trump Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., and the
Democrats’ favorite diva Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., will remain silent on
their Caucus colleague.
In that regard, we have not heard any outrage from the 16
female Democrats in the U.S. Senate regarding the allegations against their
colleague Mr. Franken.
Those who would usually be running to the microphones and
cameras to attack a conservative or Republican accused of such conduct to
bolster their illusionary hopes for a chance at a 2020 nomination have run for the
door — Gillibrand, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Kamala Harris,
D-Calif.
Of course, let’s keep in mind that feminists and liberal
Democrats will tolerate almost anything from a male politician as long as he
supports abortions or partial birth abortions. Enter Alabama Democratic
Senate candidate and abortion supporter Doug Jones!
That’s why many would agree that they deserve that
special place in hell for their hypocrisy on such an important life and death
issue — the killing of innocent, unborn children.
Finally, as we enter the home-stretch on tax reform, we
will see how many Senate Republicans will deprive the nation of over-due and
well-deserved tax reform to foster economic growth and job creation.
To those who do, there will be a special kind of place
for them, maybe not in the hell as discussed above, but in every politician’s
form of hell — defeat at the ballot box.
Clarence V. McKee is president of McKee
Communications, Inc., a government, political, and media relations consulting
firm in Florida. He held several positions in the Reagan administration as well
as in the Reagan presidential campaigns. He is a former co-owner of WTVT-TV in
Tampa and former president of the Florida Association of Broadcasters.
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Playboy Ethics, Puritan Consequences in the Year of Sex
Scandals
The thing about a charge of rape, said 17th century
British judge Sir Matthew Hale, is that it ‘‘is an accusation easily to be made
and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused” — even
if that party is innocent. It is an excruciating dilemma. Most such crimes occur
in private. And yet false charges are also sometimes made. How do we give
proper due process to the accused while showing compassion to victims?
But one thing that troubles me about all this is that
Hollywood and the culture do so much to promote an immoral sexual ethic.
Pop music and movies and TV routinely promote sex outside
of God-given marital boundaries. Then when someone engages in these activities,
especially if they want to run for office, they are besmirched by this.
I think what we are seeing in some ways is this: Playboy
ethics, but Puritan consequences. We are constantly bombarded with messages to
do whatever feels good. Then if someone does it, he suddenly faces censure.
We teach young people today how to put condoms on
cucumbers in schools, but then we frown at teenage illegitimacy.
The pop culture revels in sexual immorality. In one of
her songs, Madonna croons, “If it’s against the law, arrest me. If you can
handle it, undress me.”
Not to be outdone, Lady Gaga sings, “But I got a reason
that you're who should take me home tonight. I need a man that makes it right
when it's so wrong.”
We routinely see sex outside of marriage on the big
screen and the little one. In 1995, Don Wildmon, of the American Family
Association, complained that 88 percent of sexual activity in prime-time
television was between unmarried people — thus, making “lust more attractive
than love.”
If it was that bad in 1995, it’s only worse in 2017 —
since marriage as a whole continues to suffer significantly in our culture.
Of course, just because we’re bombarded with these
messages doesn’t excuse anybody from giving into his or her base nature or from
making unwanted sexual advances.
One of the sacred cows of the Playboy ethic on sex is
that anything goes as long as it’s between two consenting adults. But the
“consenting adults” principle still doesn’t halt the consequences of
promiscuity, such as a failed marriage, a broken heart, venereal disease, or
scandal.
Why do we have the Puritan consequences to sexual
practices? I believe our forebears were on to something with their belief that
sex was to remain within its God-given strictures: inside the bounds of holy
matrimony (of course, between a man and a woman). When we venture outside of
God’s boundaries, we go against the order He designed for our safety and
flourishing.
We may mock monogamy all we want, but interestingly, a
major study on sex in America in 1992, under the auspices of the University of
Chicago, found that the Puritan-type ethic of sex promotes happiness in the
bedroom to its adherents.
They reported, “Once again contradicting the common view
of marriage as dull and routine, the people who reported being the most
physically pleased and emotionally satisfied were the married couples .... The
lowest rates of satisfaction were among men and women who were neither married
nor living with someone — the very group thought to be having the hottest sex”
(Sex in America, p. 124).
The Bible admonishes us to avoid even the appearance of
evil. So tell me — why is it that some in our culture were wagging their
tongues at Vice President Mike Pence for refusing to go out in public alone
with women that weren’t a part of his immediate family?
This culture encourages you to freely let your libido
flow — but then when you do, you might end up being punished for it. Playboy
ethics, Puritan consequences. But as Jesus put it, let him who is without sin,
cast the first stone.
Jerry Newcombe is co-host/senior TV producer
of Kennedy Classics. He has written/co-written 25 books, including "The
Book That Made America, Doubting Thomas" (with Mark Beliles), "What
If Jesus Had Never Been Born?" (With D. James Kennedy), and "George
Washington's Sacred Fire" (with Peter Lillback).
