EMBARRASSMENT AT CNN AND MSNBC
However, CNN and MSNBC apologized for airing their profane rants.
Madonna's foulness was so egregious that a CNN anchorman Brooke Baldwin issued the following statement: "I just need to apologize for the [language] by Madonna," he said after the network cut away from the coverage, after her hysteria aired unbleeped. “That happens, and we apologize here at CNN for that.”
MSNBC, which was streaming the speech live, also apologized. It's a bad sign that their speeches were what passes for reasoned discussion and discourse today, so disgusting that reporters apologize for broadcasting them. Millions of those watching or later reading about the event were embarrassed by it all, to say the least.
But there were no apologies from former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Although she didn't attend, after scrolling through the photographs of the event, she found the march to be "awe-inspiring," writing, “Hope it brought joy to others as it did to me.”
But what does all this have to do with the decaying of the Christian consensus in America? Good question, and for the answer, let's go back to 1835 and the classic work, Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French statesman, historian, and social philosopher who wrote “Democracy in America." His work has been described as “the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the relationship between character and society in America that has ever been written.” According to Tocqueville, freedom and morality both found their American incarnation in Christianity.
WOMEN BACK THEN, BEFORE THEN, AND AFTER THEN
In the book, de Tocqueville writes about the women in America. Among the many things he observed, one stands out and has application to the Women's March on Washington. de Tocqueville wrote: "Because women primarily shape the mores of a society, the education of women [in America] is of great importance. Women in America are not brought up in naïve ignorance of vices of society; rather they are taught how to deal with them and they allow them to develop good judgment.
He goes assigns to women the task he thinks most necessary in the preservation of a democratic regime: women nurture, educate, and impart to the young the virtues which maintain the moral standards and integrity of a particular society.
The French author hit the nail on the head: women are the gatekeepers of virtue and morality in a society. It's primarily the mothers who educate and impart the moral standards and integrity to their sons and daughters. Who was the parent who taught us civility, decency, and respect for others? Think of your own moral training--from which parent did it mainly originate? Odds are that it was your mother.
de Tocqueville observed America during the administration of President Andrew Jackson; he was writing a long time ago, but what he observed held sway in America for almost 150 years. However today the dam has busted and the Women's March on Washington is a symptom of the floodwaters.
For a while now, our elites and educational system have convinced millions of mothers that there is no absolute morality to pass to the their children. They've been taught that there is no gate to keep, no absolute morality in which to educate their sons and daughters. A society can't enjoy the fruits of Christianity if it cuts the root.
Our television sets, schools, and movies have convinced millions of mothers that their children are the product of chance, a random collection of atoms and that any morality a society has is invented and therefore not absolute, but is only a means to oppress others.
Hundreds of thousands women, marching in D.C., Los Angeles, Portland, and Atlanta, gave us a look at a society in which women are no longer the gatekeepers of morality and it was one ugly sight.
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