AnalPhilosopher

My mother just forwarded a link to this essay by Harvard Law School Professor Mary Ann Glendon. Please read it and think about it. As Roger Scruton points out in his book The Meaning of Conservatism, conservatism isn't a program the way liberalism is. It's more of an anti-program. Its aim is to keep liberals and their totalitarian brethren from destroying the traditions, institutions, and practices that give our lives meaning. How do you argue for such things? You don't. You fight for them. Liberals, in their arrogance, equate inarguability with indefensibility. What we've seen so far in the debate over homosexual "marriage" is lots of liberal talk about equality, fairness, rights, and lack of discrimination. I've tried to show in this blog that these concepts do not support homosexual "marriage." They're being misinterpreted and misapplied for rhetorical and political advantage. Glendon's essay, which appeared four days ago in The Wall Street Journal, is an antidote to the tripe being talked by the likes of Andrew Sullivan.