tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post8578347722644186846..comments2024-03-27T18:18:11.525-06:00Comments on American Creation: James Lindley Wilson: "The Declaration of Independence isn’t egalitarian enough"Brad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-38143033948499648652016-05-09T19:42:56.705-06:002016-05-09T19:42:56.705-06:00James Lindley Wilson: "The Declaration of Ind...<i>James Lindley Wilson: "The Declaration of Independence isn’t egalitarian enough"</i><br /><br />Doubling down on [Obama campaign official] Danielle Allen's questionable premise, that the D of I is "egalitarian" atall, at least "egalitarian" as wielded by the 21st century left. "Equality," as in "all men are created equal" was the Founders' chosen term: Why it needs to be perverted into the perverted French Revolution's <i>égalité</i> is reason enough to reject the entire premise of Allen's entire enterprise.<br /><br /><i>That idea that “all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still,” said Obama in his inaugural, “just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.”<br /><br />Astonishing. The president is here making the brazen claim that the roots of modern feminism and gay rights can be traced straight back to the Founding Fathers and founding principles of our republic.<br /><br />But how? The sanctum sanctorum of modern feminism is <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, the discovery of a constitutional right to an abortion. Yet, for every generation of Americans before 1973, abortion was a heinous crime.<br /><br />And can anyone seriously argue that a barroom brawl with cops by homosexual patrons of Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in 1969 was but another battle in the long war for liberty begun at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill?<br /><br />How could that be, when the author of the declaration Obama cites, Thomas Jefferson, believed homosexuality should be treated as rape, and George Washington ordered homosexuals drummed out of his army?<br /><br />What Obama was attempting at the Capitol, with his repeated lifts from Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, was to portray his own and his party’s egalitarianism as a continuation of the great cause that triumphed at Yorktown and Appomattox.<br /><br />He is hijacking the American Revolution, claiming an ancestral lineage for his ideology that is utterly fraudulent and bogus.</i><br /><br />http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/obamas-egalitarian-revolution/Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-70160027987165271982016-05-08T16:06:28.885-06:002016-05-08T16:06:28.885-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-12813440213558655732016-05-08T16:06:14.531-06:002016-05-08T16:06:14.531-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com