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Clinton's sorry legacy
Speaking of Joseph Sobran (and disordered passions), he also recently authored an outstanding op-ed piece, titled, "Bill Clinton's legacy: Recreational sex," which I read in The Washington Times National Weekly. He made the point that for all the zigzagging of his foreign policy, and the haphazardness of his domestic agenda, Clinton "has fought with something like conviction for abortion," and otherwise steadily and deliberately lowered the American moral jumpbar, both through his public policies and by his personal example. Sobran concludes: "For all his rattling hypocrisy, Mr. Clinton has found one area where he has been able to adapt his avowed principles to his actual practice. He wants to enact the New Morality into legislation. This is what his presidency will most deserve to be remembered for: his desire to make his own vices normative for the whole nation."
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have the opposite sort of president? We have before, and it's not impossible that we could again some day. Let's pray and work for it.
By the same author:
• NFP, by itself, does not compromise the marriage vocation, (I,1)
• What is a 'real' Catholic education?, (I,2)
• Orthodox not paradox, (I,3)
• NFP and connaturality, (I,4)
• How does a university evangelize?, (I,4)
• Thomism and intellectual freedom, (I,5)
• Keeping our worship in step with 'what the Spirit is saying' to FUS, (I,7)
• Can charismatics and traditionalists peacefully coexist?, (II,1)
• The horror of polygamy and the persistence of chauvinistic theories in Catholic academia, (II,1)
• The challenge of the Concourse: discussion without (much) contention, (II,2)
• When old ideas are breaking up, (II,3)
• Why the polygamy problem is not as passe as it appears: Kathleen van Schaijik responds to her critics, (II,4)
• Why 'charismatic spirituality' belongs at the heart of our communal life, (II,9)
• What is the University Concourse?, (III,1)
• How not to help households, (III,1)
• Silence betokens ... What?, (III,3)
• The freedom of stricture, (III,4)
• What were households meant to be?, (III,5)
• Different degrees of authority, (III,5)
• Last words (for now), (III,6)
• A suggestion regarding Extraordinary Ministers, (III,6)
• Catholic teaching on capital punishment, (III,6)
• A final thought on the household issue, (III,6)
• What is our mission, really?, (III,6)
• What if Shakspere wasn't Shakespeare?, (III,6)
• Clinton's sorry legacy, (III,6)
• Evolution, (III,6)
• Intimidated? Please don't be., (III,6)
• A gift for the graduates of '98, (III,6)
• A point of policy, (III,6)
• A point of principle, (III,6)
• A word of thanks, (III,6)
• Love Never Leaves, (IV,1)
• Faith and Reason, (IV,2)
• A different perspective on the modesty question, (IV,5)
• Strangers to the world, (IV,6)
• Happy & sad, (IV,7)
• Oxford gaining on Shakspere, (IV,7)
• Of private and collegiate morality, (IV,7)
• Newman, education and context, (IV,7)
• Witnesses to Faith in the face of death, (IV,7)
• Viva the class of '99!, (IV,7)
• A prize winning physicist out of his depth, (IV,7)
• A positive psychology, (IV,7)
• How to become a leader, (IV,7)
• Campus politics, (IV,7)
• Thanksgiving, (IV,7)
• New face, same spirit, (V,1)
• The 'Stratford man' and the Shakespearean canon: no match at all, (V,3)
• Bringing the masses from starvation to full strength, (V,4)
• Branching out through Christus Magister, (V,6)
• Kathleen van Schaijik replies to John Doman on Shakespeare, (V,6)
• A Catholic critique of a current notion of courtship, (V,7)
• Fr. Michael's achievement, (V,8)
• Charity may be severe, (V,8)
• On the other side of the same coin, (V,8)
• Shakespeare debate update, (V,8)
• Beware of economic Puritanism, (V,8)
• What the education debate is and isn't about, (V,8)
• The Weimar Republicans, (V,8)
• Drawing out an analogy, (V,8)
• Dear Class of 2000, (V,8)
• How to support the Concourse by buying books, (V,8)
• Thanksgiving, (V,8)
• The evil of exorcising judgement, (VI,1)
• Jump Start, (VII,1)
• It's not the Vatican, it's the laity, (VII,1)
• Abusing NFP, (VII,1)
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