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The Charges against Judge Kavanaugh Should Be Ignored

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Calminian, Sep 19, 2018.

  1. Calminian

    Calminian Well-Known Member
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    Amazed that we're trying to figure out if the story is true or not, when it doesn't matter either way. Even Christians are struggling with this. Very sad. Perhaps this conservative Jew can set the very confused modern Church straight, and realign our moral compass.

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    The Charges against Judge Kavanaugh Should Be Ignored
    By DENNIS PRAGER
    September 18, 2018 1:03 PM[​IMG]
    Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 5, 2018. (Chris Wattie/Reuters )
    Even if true, they tell us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17.

    It is almost impossible to overstate the damage done to America’s moral compass by taking the charges leveled against Judge Brett Kavanaugh seriously.

    It undermines foundational moral principles of any decent society.

    Those who claim that the charges against Judge Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford are important and worth investigating and that they ultimately, if believed, invalidate his candidacy for the U.S. Supreme Court are stating that:

    a) What a middle-age adult did in high school is all we need to need to know to evaluate an individual’s character — even when his entire adult life has been impeccable.

    b) No matter how good and moral a life one has led for ten, 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years, it is nullified by a sin committed as teenager.

    No decent — or rational — society has ever believed such nihilistic nonsense.

    This is another example of the moral chaos sown by secularism and the Left. In any society rooted in Judeo-Christian values, it is understood that people should be morally assessed based on how they behave over the course of their lifetime — early behavior being the least important period in making such an assessment.

    These religious values taught us that all of us are sinners and, therefore, with the exception of those who have engaged in true evil, we need to be very careful in making moral evaluations of human beings.

    And, of course, we were taught to extend forgiveness when people demonstrate through their actions that they have changed. As a well-known ancient Jewish adage put it: “Where the penitent stands, the most righteous cannot stand.” In other words, the highest moral achievement is moral improvement.

    Perhaps the most important principle violated by taking this 36-year-old high school-era charge seriously is the principle of the moral bank account.

    Every one of us has a moral bank account. Our good deeds are deposits, and our bad deeds are withdrawals. We therefore assess a person the same way we assess our bank account. If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red.

    By all accounts — literally all — Brett Kavanaugh’s moral bank account is way in the black. He has led a life of decency, integrity, commitment to family, and commitment to community that few Americans can match. On these grounds alone, the charges against him as a teenager should be ignored.

    So why is this charge taken seriously?

    One reason is, as I recently wrote, the greatest fear in America is fear of the Left — the fear of what the Left will do to you if you cross it. Not fear of God. Not fear of doing wrong. Fear of the Left. Offend the Left and you will lose your reputation and, quite often, your job or your business.

    Another reason is pure, amoral, demagogic politics. No honest American of any political persuasion believes that if a woman were to charge a Democrat-appointed judge such as Merrick Garland with doing to her 36 years ago in high school what Brett Kavanaugh is charged with having done 36 years ago in high school, the Democratic party and the media would be demanding that the confirmation vote be delayed or that the candidate withdraw.

    A third reason is feminism’s weakening of the American female (and male, but that is another story). A generation ago, a drunk teenager at a party groping a teenage girl over her clothing while trying to remove as much of her clothing as possible would not have been defended or countenanced. But it would not have been deemed as inducing post-traumatic stress disorder either.

    This weakening of the female is perfectly illustrated by the statement released by Susanna Jones, head of Holton-Arms School, the private preparatory school for girls in Bethesda, Md., that the accuser attended. “As a school that empowers women to use their voices, we are proud of this alumna for using hers,” Jones said.

    “Empowers women”? Please.

    Nearly every woman past puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her. (This is, needless to say, wrong.) My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a “survivor,” she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps and Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and for cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.

    When my wife was a waitress in her mid teens, the manager of her restaurant grabbed her breasts and squeezed them on numerous occasions. She told him to buzz off, figured out how to avoid being in places where they were alone, and continued going about her job. That’s empowerment.

    In sum, I am not interested in whether Mrs. Ford, an anti-Trump activist, is telling the truth. Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17. But for the record, I don’t believe her story. Aside from too many missing details — most women remember virtually everything about the circumstances of a sexual assault no matter how long ago — few men do what she charges Kavanaugh with having done only one time. And no other woman has ever charged him with any sexual misconduct.

    Do not be surprised if a future Republican candidate for office or judicial nominee — no matter how exemplary a life he has led — is accused of sexual misconduct . . . from when he was in elementary school.

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    DENNIS PRAGER
    — Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book is THE RATIONAL BIBLE, a commentary on the book of Exodus. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at DENNISPRAGER.COM. @dennisprager
     
  2. Yeshua1

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    I wonder how all of the Dems would do under the issue of moaral purity if God was to expose all of their deeds and thoughts in His blinding light?
     
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    Wow. Prager's ability to argue persuasively has really deteriorated.

    I agree that even IF Kavanaugh did what he's accused of, it should not disqualify him for the Supreme Court. But Prager's arguments contain fallacies. I would expect him to construct a better argument.

    The moral bank account analogy is terribly flawed.

    He engages in mind reading when he states that Democrats would not be calling for an investigation if their nominee were accused of a similar crime.

    Then he belittles the charge of sexual assault by saying it was groping and that it happens all the time, so what's the big deal?




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    Anything that comes from the mouth of any Democrat should automatically be considered a damnable lie.
     
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    He believes in the moral bank account. He applies it to everything.
     
  6. Calminian

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    Amazing. Did we read the same article?

    What I like was the fact that he did not belittle the sin, nor did he blow it out of proportion. That was the strength of the position.

    So, I still don't know where you actually disagree.
     
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    As we should for things like this. Earthly punishments for crimes don't work the same as they do in eternity. You can be forgiven for murder and go to heaven, but that doesn't mean we release people from prison after a profession of faith. It's different. The crime of a teen going too far with a girl before he's given a firm "no" is a sin, but not an unpardonable one in earthly courts. In fact, I would say it's really not that noteworthy. It's not rape, as many believe in this day and age. And Christians should know the difference.
     
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    So even if we ignore the charges and yet Judge Kavanaugh can not muster the votes because of the character assassination what then?

    Does anyone believe that President Trump will then select someone LESS conservative than Judge Kavanaugh?
     
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    No, he'd go conservative again. He pick a woman. But I think Kav is going to survive.
     
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