Conservatives have their Republican righteous rhetoric
letter to the editor
Conservatives have their Republican righteous rhetoric
To the Editor:
A writer in the Feb. 4 edition of The Strongsville Post stated that the left had created the liberal lexicon of euphemistic deception, such as replacing “terrorist-sponsoring countries” with “majority Muslim countries,” or “abortion” with “choice,” or “conservative or Republican” with “racist.” Seriously?
Conservatives have long had their Republican righteous rhetoric wherein a law permitting discrimination is called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, allowing the self-righteous and sanctimonious to impose their religious beliefs on others, denying them their right to determine for themselves how to lead their lives. Because of their peculiar beliefs, a pharmacist can deny a woman the morning-after pill even in cases of rape or incest; a county clerk can illegally deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples, etc. GOP-controlled legislatures can deny women control over their own bodies, health and reproductive rights by calling it the pro-life (instead of the mainly white “superior” Christian conservative males dictate your life and future) Act.
If gender-equality legislation, based on Catholic catechism, were passed, men could engage in sex for procreation purposes only and would be denied condoms. Would men tolerate those peculiar restrictions on what they can do with their dangly bits or also demand their own choices and take their case to the Supreme Court? Republican-majority legislatures block minimum wage increases and pass union-weakening laws by calling them the Right-to-Work law, the quickest way to achieve lower wages for workers (decimating the working/middle class) and higher profits for owners and stockholders. A University of Notre Dame study found that wages and benefits in right-to-work states were $8,000 less per annum, with higher rates of poverty statewide. As to liberals calling some conservatives or Republicans “racist,” maybe we just recognize them better than the right does. When Donald Trump disparaged a Muslim Pakistani-American Gold Star family whose son died for this country; accused an American judge of Mexican heritage, who was presiding in a lawsuit against him, of bias; had his management company twice sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination; carried out a five-year-long bogus “birther” campaign against President Obama, etc – isn’t Trump’s racism self-evident? Unfortunately, we now also have to deal with the daily Trumpian truth twists, or “alternative facts,” i.e. lies. We are currently searching for the phantom 500,000-plus additional inaugural crowd, massive 3-5 million voter fraud, the Bowling Green massacre site, the unknown terrorist attack in Sweden, administration “ethics,” etc.
Finally, where is the Republican patriots’ outrage, teeth-gnashing and name calling? Apparently, signing executive orders is definitely unconstitutional, probably impeachable and possible even treasonous only when a Democrat African-American president does it. Talk about racists.
Tina Korobij
Strongsville
To the Editor:
A writer in the Feb. 4 edition of The Strongsville Post stated that the left had created the liberal lexicon of euphemistic deception, such as replacing “terrorist-sponsoring countries” with “majority Muslim countries,” or “abortion” with “choice,” or “conservative or Republican” with “racist.” Seriously?
Conservatives have long had their Republican righteous rhetoric wherein a law permitting discrimination is called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, allowing the self-righteous and sanctimonious to impose their religious beliefs on others, denying them their right to determine for themselves how to lead their lives. Because of their peculiar beliefs, a pharmacist can deny a woman the morning-after pill even in cases of rape or incest; a county clerk can illegally deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples, etc. GOP-controlled legislatures can deny women control over their own bodies, health and reproductive rights by calling it the pro-life (instead of the mainly white “superior” Christian conservative males dictate your life and future) Act.
If gender-equality legislation, based on Catholic catechism, were passed, men could engage in sex for procreation purposes only and would be denied condoms. Would men tolerate those peculiar restrictions on what they can do with their dangly bits or also demand their own choices and take their case to the Supreme Court? Republican-majority legislatures block minimum wage increases and pass union-weakening laws by calling them the Right-to-Work law, the quickest way to achieve lower wages for workers (decimating the working/middle class) and higher profits for owners and stockholders. A University of Notre Dame study found that wages and benefits in right-to-work states were $8,000 less per annum, with higher rates of poverty statewide. As to liberals calling some conservatives or Republicans “racist,” maybe we just recognize them better than the right does. When Donald Trump disparaged a Muslim Pakistani-American Gold Star family whose son died for this country; accused an American judge of Mexican heritage, who was presiding in a lawsuit against him, of bias; had his management company twice sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination; carried out a five-year-long bogus “birther” campaign against President Obama, etc – isn’t Trump’s racism self-evident? Unfortunately, we now also have to deal with the daily Trumpian truth twists, or “alternative facts,” i.e. lies. We are currently searching for the phantom 500,000-plus additional inaugural crowd, massive 3-5 million voter fraud, the Bowling Green massacre site, the unknown terrorist attack in Sweden, administration “ethics,” etc.
Finally, where is the Republican patriots’ outrage, teeth-gnashing and name calling? Apparently, signing executive orders is definitely unconstitutional, probably impeachable and possible even treasonous only when a Democrat African-American president does it. Talk about racists.
Tina Korobij
Strongsville
