After a brief flirtation with compassionate conservatism, Hillary Rodham
Clinton has returned to her neo-Marxist ways. On April 19 Senator
Clinton introduced the so-called Paycheck Fairness Act, a law that would
pressure employers to fatten women's paychecks, regardless of the number
of hours worked or job qualifications.
The former Soviet Union once tried to divorce job productivity from
wages. Of course, that removed persons' incentive for hard work, and
economic mayhem was the result. But Hillary is a lawyer, not a
historian.
By interesting coincidence, Sen. Clinton's bill was introduced the very
same day that, half-way around the globe, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was
elected as the new pope. Within hours he assumed the name Benedict XVI.
During the 1980s pope John Paul II worked courageously and relentlessly
behind the scenes to topple Polish Communism. Now Cardinal Ratzinger is
picking up where John Paul left off, publicly denouncing the scourge of
socialism.
Faced with a man of towering intellect and unswerving moral courage, the
Leftist media has responded by doing what it does best: cavil,
criticize, and complain. All but calling the pope a religious bigot,
columnist Andrew Sullivan warned, "And so the Catholic church
accelerated its turn toward authoritarianism, hostility to modernity,
assertion of papal supremacy, and quashing of internal debate."
The pontiff is a man of rock-solid conviction who decries what he calls
the "dictatorship of relativism." Of course Benedict XVI views abortion
as a social and moral abomination, repeatedly referring to it as a
"grave sin." And same-sex marriage is out, as revealed by this 1998
statement deploring the trend that "heterosexuality and homosexuality
[would] come to be seen as simply two morally equivalent variations."
At this rate, maybe the concepts of Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, will
soon be restored to the public discourse.
Which brings me to Hillary's ill-disguised aspirations to reclaim her
throne in the White House and welcome the long-awaited
feminist-socialist utopia.
Last June, when Senator John Kerry and President Bush were running
neck-and-neck in the presidential race, Cardinal Ratzinger issued a
letter that prohibited priests from giving the Holy Communion to a
Catholic politician who is "consistently campaigning and voting" for
permissive abortion laws.
Some priests felt that defending a woman's "right to choose" represented
a higher moral principle than protecting the lives of unborn innocents,
so they chose to ignore that instruction. But that letter served to
re-awaken the consciences of millions of Catholics, who on Election Day
abandoned the Democratic Party in droves.
When to comes to radical feminism, the pontiff doesn't mince words,
either.
Last July 31 he
released a Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church
on the Collaboration of Men and Women. Representing a brilliant and
incisive critique of feminist theory, the Letter zeroed in on its two
fundamental flaws.
First is the tactic of provoking gender conflict. Feminists try to
convince women to "make themselves adversaries of men," explained the
Cardinal, which "leads to opposition between men and women."
Second is the concept of androgeny, what Ratzinger denounced as the
"obscuring of the difference or duality of the sexes." This flawed
theory of gender "has inspired ideologies which...call into question the
family in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father."
If that analysis didn't give Hillary heartburn, the Letter's conclusion
must have: that feminist "distortions" and "lethal effects" were
undermining the "natural two-parent structure" of the family.
Senator Clinton, it might be smart to stop giving away those autographed
copies of "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child."
But the German-born pontiff was not advocating a nostalgic return to the
paternalistic days of kinder, kuche, and kirche. Instead he wrote about
the need for an "active collaboration of the sexes" in order to bring
the "feminine values" of faithfulness and caring to the forefront.
Last week, shortly before the Cardinals commenced their deliberations,
then-Cardinal Ratzinger was invited to deliver the homily.
In his
remarks, he specifically singled out liberalism, collectivism, and
Marxism as sources of perversion and error.
Liberalism, collectivism, and Marxism - that pretty much sums up
Hillary's whole political philosophy.
