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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (27735)	1/13/1999 7:09:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 67261

Admittedly I have not kept up with this story, but all I have seen thus far is an allegation that Barr committed adultery and paid for an abortion-- an allegation that comes from a disgruntled ex-wife via your filthy pimp. Stupid nutcase! The allegation has been made on a "sworn affidavit". You know what that means, eh, do you, cretin?!

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (27735)	1/13/1999 8:01:00 PM
From: DEWWY	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Hey..what with the language you use and your attitude, you clearly qualify as a promising candidate for writing the "As*H%le of the Month" feature in the next issue of Hustler! Your subject could be Clinton or Barr...you choose.

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (27735)	1/13/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

Rev. Pilch, in honor of your primary obsession, I though you might enjoy this bit from my source of the day. The only issue to rival Lewinsky for prominence among conservative intellectuals in 1998 was homosexuality. But in some ways, this was apposite. For the new conservatives, the 'attack on homosexual legitimacy is of a with the battle against Presidential adultery. They see no distinction between an argument for same-sex marriage, for example, and a presidential defense of adultery, because there is no context in which a homosexual relationship can be moral. Homosexuality, for the puritanical conservatives, is not a condition or even a way of life; it is a disease. And again, the intelligentsia led the way -with Kristol at the heart of it. If most Americans were a little surprised by the religious right's advertising campaign last July in defense of "curing" homosexuals, then they had not been following closely the drift on the intellectual right. As usual, Bill Kristol was at the heart of it. In June 1997, he gave the concluding address at a Washington conservative conference dedicated, as its brochure put it, to exposing homosexuality as "the disease that it is." Kristol shared the podium with a variety of clergy members and therapists who advocated a spiritual and psychoanalytic "cure" for homosexuals. One speaker, a priest, described homosexuality as "a way of life that is marked by compulsion, loneliness, depression and disease," comprising a "history-limiting horizon of a sterile worldview divorced from the promise and peril of successor generations." Another speaker decried legal contraception and abortion as the "homosexualization of heterosexual sex," and bemoaned that nonprocreative trends among white Europeans was leading to "race death." In the broad advertising campaign last summer, sponsored by groups allied with those who organized the D.C. conference, homosexuals were portrayed as sick and in need of therapy. The notion that homosexuality was involuntary was dismissed, with Starr-like certainty, as a violation of "the truth." The Senate majority leader, Trent Lott, said that homosexuals were guilty not of a public crime, but of a private "sin." Again, The Standard had pioneered this politics, routinely decrying any public destigmatization of homosexuals, and calling, in one article in late 1996, for the "reaffirmation by states of a sodomy law" that would imprison gay men for private sex as a counterstrike against the threat of same-sex marriage. THE WEEKLY STANDARD'S OBSESSION WITH THE Lewinsky scandal and homosexuality may seem an odd conjunction of issues, but the joint cru-sades have uncanny echoes in the halls of Congress. So Representative Bob Barr was the pioneer of the Defense of Marriage Act, and the author of the first resolution to impeach the President. And Trent Lott, while leading the charge against the President's immorality in recent weeks, also insured that the nomination of James Hormel as U.S. Ambassador to Luxemhourg was held up purely because of Hormel's homosexuality. And among the most aggressive supporters of impeachment - the Housejudiciary Committee members Charles T. Canady and Bob Inglis, for example - have been the most virulently hostile to gay rights in the current Congress. (Andrew Sullivan, "The Scolds", NYT Magazine, 10/11/98) Actually, Rev. Pilch, it's good that you've chosen to grace us with the orthodox views of "mainstream conservatism" on the subject these days, such as it is. On the integrity in politics front, the prominence of your views in conservative circles might pass unnoticed otherwise. I compliment you on the service you're performing for us here.