Moral Confusion

Robert Conquest's second law of politics states that any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. Time to revise the law.

Every organization will eventually virtue-signal itself into a progressive organization.

Even Chick-fil-A sponsors an LGBTQ film festival. Other examples abound. The Boy Scouts starting allowing feygeleh boys to join in 2013. Two years later, the ban on gay scout leaders was rescinded.

The Episcopal Church, the place of my baptism and confirmation, made the rite of marriage available to all people, regardless of gender, in 2015.

The United States Marine Corps has opened all combat MOS positions to women, in spite of the fact that all male units were able to better march long distances carrying heavy loads and also were able to fire their weapons more accurately after marching over distance.

Even The Citadel is considering allowing uniform exemptions for women in burkas.

That's why it's no surprise to see the virtue-signaling from the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church once took the side of freedom from oppression. The statue of Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan in Gdansk, Poland, reflects the Polish people's reverence for the two leaders.

Today we have a Pope who thinks the moral high road is keeping carbon in the ground. Pope Francis makes common cause with Raul and Fidel Castro, and more recently, Bernie Sanders. The Pope even traveled to Lesbos and brought several migrant families back as souvenirs.

There may be a downside to all the virtue signaling. Chuck Johnson has a theory that the more frantic the prog signaling you see from a CEO, the worse trouble his company is in.

Well, the United States is frantically signaling to the world via our cultural imperialism. We are exporting the value of gay marriage, which can only mean that our republic is in serious trouble.