Wall Street tolerance
By Phil Lawler (bio - articles ) | March 03, 2004 8:56 AM
A man who can do an extended smear on Mother Teresa is capable of anything, so you shouldn't be surprised that when Christopher Hitchens writes on the same-sex "marriage" debate, he comes out with lines like this:
I know that our theocratic enemies are, and that our former totalitarian enemies were, ugly and paranoid on the point.and this:
When I become bored or irritated by the gay marriage battle -- and I do, I sometimes do -- I like to picture the writhing faces and hoarse yells of the mullahs and the fanatics.What's surprising-- and more than a bit unsettling-- is that those lines appear in an op-ed column published in today's Wall Street Journal. Overt expressions of contempt for social conservatives, and attempts to demonize Christians, are becoming acceptable to the American financiall establishment.
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Posted by: Sterling -
Mar. 09, 2004 11:47 PM ET USA
Wow. "Sick in his mind, sick in his soul," as Bailey Sr. said of Potter. Hitchens sounds like someone who may end up in an institution. Re-reading his last sentence made me wonder if he tortures his cat after he gets done enjoying those writhing faces he likes to imagine.
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Posted by: Pseudodionysius -
Mar. 03, 2004 9:59 AM ET USA
I do recall Christ throwing the money changers out of the temple. Now that Robert Bartley is deceased, I think that you are going to see more of this type of smear masquerading as reasoned thought.
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Posted by: patriot6908 -
Mar. 03, 2004 9:50 AM ET USA
Hitchens, a once staple of The Nation, is indeed an odd sort to appear in the pages of the WSJ. I suspect that they publish his screed because of his position on Iraq. But the WSJ like the NRO, which also features Hitchens, is a leaky ship of sanity. It stands to reason that when you sail a ship in a growing social ocean of scum that some will leak in. As for Islam, it's a patient beast, waiting outside Hitchen's little warm circle of Western civilization--as the fire starts to grow cooler.
