C-SPAN is entertaining us today with a live broadcast of the Family Research Leadership Council convention under the guise of “Campaign 2008”, so, of course, I started watching it, being concerned with the next election.
What I saw, of course, had little to do with the campaign, and a great deal to do with giving a television-wide forum to people slinging invective against “secular progressives”… or, to put it bluntly, people like me.
I heard that “secular progressives” are often academics who are corrupting our universities. Gee… my wife and I teach in the Maryland Community College System and we like to hang out at programs at Shepherd University and other schools. I guess that makes us a part of those corrupt academics.
I heard that “secular progressives” are people who support the ACLU, Women’s Rights and similar philosophical value structures. Gee… that’s me all right.
I heard that “secular progressives” are promoters of sodomy. Gee… now it is starting to get a little weird.
I heard that “secular progressives” are bent on destroying the family and creating a social pathology of entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. And that we are spreading a myth about “women’s biological clock” which is keeping us from God’s biblical calling for women to have children ASAP. Gee… now I’m confused.
And finally I heard that “secular progressives” were Democrats. Well, I am. I have a voter registration card that says so.
I guess I can’t be too down on CSPAN for promoting this crap. It would sure be nice if there were a Secular Progressive convention somewhere that they could cover in the name of “Campaign 2008.”