Posted by
Jason Cunningham on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:15:01 AM
And the battle rages on. This time in the form of the confirmation hearing for Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr., President Bush’s nominee for surgeon general.
Once again, as has happened so many other times when Bush has nominated someone for a government post, the decision on Holsinger is boiling down to one question: Will the nominee be “unbiased,” or will he be beholden to “ideology”? But this question is merely a political ploy. Everyone has an ideology, and though a person may be able to be relatively unbiased when it comes to what they consider to be lesser issues, ideologies nearly always come to the fore when a person is dealing with emotionally-charged issues, such as abortion, homosexuality and stem-cell research. A favorite tactic of liberals, however, is to make it appear as though they’re not ideological while conservatives are.
Take the Holsinger case, for example. Back in 1991 he wrote a paper in which he argued that sex between men was contrary to nature’s design and was associated with infectious diseases and cancer. Now, anyone who spends much time following American politics knows that conservatives, by and large, are against the homosexual lifestyle, and that liberals, for the most part, are fine with it. Which means that in Holsinger’s case – presuming that his opinion about homosexuality remains unchanged since 1991 – liberals don’t want him anywhere near the position of America’s highest-ranking doctor.
And here’s where the liberal trick comes in: If Holsinger personally approved of the homosexual lifestyle, liberals would describe him as one who “puts science first,” and would certainly not brand him with the scarlet letter “I” … but since he presumably is against that lifestyle, he is then, of course, an ideologue, putting his personal convictions ahead of “scientific facts” – which, as all good liberals proclaim, include the “facts” that homosexuality is genetic, outside the bounds of personal choice, and therefore perfectly acceptable (does this mean that kleptomaniacs can’t be held responsible for stealing?). Nevermind the real fact that homosexuality has proven adverse effects on the human body, and that it should therefore be any surgeon general’s duty to encourage people away from such harmful behavior.
In the end, my advice is to never engage in a coin toss with a liberal – they’re the type who say, “Heads I win, tails you lose.”