(Crossposted on Equality Loudoun)

This has got to break some sort of record for stupid.

Yesterday, I heard a man equate the sacrifices made by Thomas Beatie so that he and his wife could have children, with the crowd of idiots who trampled a man to death so they could get inside a Wal-Mart to go shopping. No kidding, this was on (OMG!) "Janet Parshall's America" (see here for more on that). The man is named Wesley J. Smith, and he writes a blog about bioethics and "the importance of being human." Bioethics is a big subject, and Wesley J. Smith may well have something insightful to say about some aspect of it, for all I know. But that possibility now seems remote to me, given that he knows so little and displays absolutely no inquisitiveness about something as central to being human as gender.

Here is the "reasoning" involved in his placing those two completely opposite events in the same category, something he calls "coup de culture": He thinks they are both illustrations of "hedonistic people" who are self-centered and think they should get what they want when they want it, no matter what it takes. He may have a point with the Wal-Mart shoppers; as I recall, they refused to stop shopping even after learning that they had trampled a man...