American Thinker: Trevor Thomas: 'Bill Maher, High Priest'

Source:American Thinker- might want to change the name of their publication, based on the ideas that they produce.

“Bill Maher is upset. In his pagan mind, now that a significant number of Americans are comfortable with same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana, he recently concluded, “it’s time we knocked over the next social domino, Puritanism.”

So, according to Maher, what exactly is “Puritanism?” It seems that anyone or anything that would stand in the way of the sexual desires of any consenting adult would be guilty of Puritanism. For example, France has been in the headlines recently because “the boring guy they elected president last year turns out not to be so boring” (Maher’s words).

It turns out that President François Hollande never married the mother of his four children. He broke up with her a few years ago for a younger woman. As happens so often (amazing that so many first-time “mistresses” don’t figure this out-because if a man will leave the mother of his children, why wouldn’t he leave the next woman) in these matters, the younger woman was then dumped for an actress.

So what? concludes Maher, “the French just shrug and go back to eating snails.” Maher wonders why America can’t be more like France as he then gets to the point of his rant. He points out that newly elected Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, was shamed into firing Lis Smith, who was in line to become de Blasio’s communications director.

Maher, oblivious to his moral ignorance and hypocrisy, asks, “Was it that she lied on her résumé? Or accepted gifts from a lobbyist? Or injected Alex Rodriguez with steroids? Nope. It’s that she’s dating Eliot Spitzer, America’s evilest, horniest man.” Evidently in Maher’s perverted world, lying on a résumé, illegal gifts from lobbyists, and steroid use are bad things; but abandoning the mother of your children, whoring around with whatever is your current fancy, same-sex marriage, pot use, and the like are okay.”

Source:American Thinker

“Bill Maher morals and values”

Source:Fantasy Coach- Real Time With Bill Maher.

From Fantasy Coach

So according to Trevor Thomas, it’s immoral for someone in France to raise their own kids, with the woman he didn’t marry, but happens to be the mother of his kids, as well as for gay people to consensually marry each other, and for consenting adults to smoke pot. But if you beat the hell out of a gay person, simply because that person is gay, or violently crash a gay wedding, you are a good, decent, moral person, who also loves Jesus. I’m not putting words in Trevor Thomas’s mouth, but that’s what this sounds like.

This subject is the perfect example of why we still need the Fourth Amendment our Right to Privacy in America. Because imagine if the Religious-Right or the Far-Right in general was in charge in the United States and we didn’t have the Right to Privacy and how much of their big government agenda they would be able to get through. And being able to outlaw any type of behavior even among consenting adults that isn’t hurting anyone, without the United States Constitution to stop them.

Morality, it get’s to what is your position of morality. For me, it is about good behavior and how we treat each other. And for me moral behavior would be to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Most of us are good people so we would treat people the way we want them to treat us. Unless we simply do not like them and could care less what they think of us or how they would treat us in response. But even with people like that, we generally do not intentionally hurt people especially if we have better things to do. And are good productive people who aren’t going to be worried about what some jerk is doing.

The liberal tradition of morality is about how we treat each other as people. But even as kids we tend to be raised regardless of our parents ideology to treat people well the way we would want to be treated. And we tend to learn these things as kids and that is how we are able to make friends and work with other people. Because we treat people well and in a moral way and we do not hurt people intentionally. Especially if they are innocent people.

But if you are on the Religious-Right or the Far-Right in general, morality is not just about how we treat each other, but how we live our own lives as individuals. How we live individually and even if we aren’t hurting anyone, even ourselves we could be viewed by the Far-Right as either immoral or involved in immoral behavior when it comes to activities they disapprove. Homosexuality, adultery, gambling, drinking, smoking, using illegal drugs, pornography, are just some of the examples of activities that the Far-Right would like to outlaw in the United States. Because they see these things as immoral.

If you are a Liberal, you believe that government should mind their own damn business. And allow the people to mind their business. Instead of government getting in the way and telling free adults how they should live their own lives.

But for the Religious-Right, there is no such thing as individual behavior at least as it relates to personal issues and that all of these things are the public’s business (meaning government’s) in order to have a moral code that protects everyone even from themselves. 

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