Newt Gingrich Laments That Teachers Aren’t Bullying Gay Children Enough

So, situationally speaking, does being uber patriotic make multiple marital affairs ethically okie dokie?

Perhaps if Newt's high school teacher had taught him about ethics instead of giving him private tutoring in How To Make Sweet Love To An Older Woman, his moral compass would point toward something other than adultery.

Wait .. this was in Tennessee?

No, Newt, teachers do teach kids to render moral judgements all the time. The thing is sexual orientation is not a moral issue, nor is sexuality in general, you bigoted fat fuck. As long as it's consensual, with who or how people have sex has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with morality.

Learn what morals are – it deals with how you treat others, not what you do with your genitals. It also has absolutely nothing to do with religion, which you keep trying to irrelevantly stick into everything.

"It gets butter."
-Newt, to everything on his plate at every meal.

You know Newt secretly watches Glee.

Wow. Just. Fucking. Wow. From the Jackson Sun article:

Jason Hillman voiced his support for Bond in a comment on the Facebook thread. “Sounds like a good principal to me,” he said. “I bet the ACLU would think everything was OK if the principal was sleeping with a student of the same sex at school. Stupid liberals.”

No, wait. It gets better.

Wanda Joyner also defended Bond on Facebook, saying there should be more principals like her. “Sounds like she is standing up for morals in that school. Need more like her,” she said. “That is a personal choice to be gay or not to be gay so they should leave that stuff at home.”

I have had the misfortune of speaking to this Joyner once. She admitted straight up that she would have no problem disowning a gay child, because of the whole abomination thing.

All I want is six hours' notice before the strafing begins, please.

In other news, the Santorum campaign announces the hiring of good Samaritan high school principal Dorothy Bond as their new director of community relations.

"threatened to expel them if they publicly showed affection for members of the same sex"

Does that include holding hands when they play Red Rover and Ring Around the Rosie?

“We have now had a whole two generations of teachers who explained to us ‘you shouldn’t render moral judgment, after all it’s all situation ethics, who are we to decide,’ and that’s been a major problem” Said Newt, as he boned his High School English teacher.

Among the millions of things that are reality-independent and paranoid about this "teachers are telling kids that everything is OK", — besides the fact that it's yet another of the right's unending stock of patently false zombie lies whose falsehood could be easily ascertained just by asking a few teachers if they believe that, or for that matter just thinking for three minutes about what is being claimed — is that in this case it is not just false, but the exact opposite of what the teachers (with a shred of decency) are telling their students: it is totally, non-relatively, 100%-no-exceptions, as indubitable as 2 + 2 = 4, absolutely wrong to bully gay students. Absolutely. Without qualification. And it is the right wing that wants to get all relativist on us (as they also do when you point out all the God-ordered genocides in the Old Testament or the slaveholding of prominent "Founding Fathers" – different time, don't ya know. Different situations.) "Oh, well, hitting someone who has done nothing to harm you is usually bad, that's true, but when someone's religious beliefs are being openly mocked by two male students holding hands, well, you have to take those considerations into account."

Listen, Newt, I and people like me will often say things like: "Everything Newt Gingrich has said or done since he reached the age of 16 and probably before has been dishonest, corrupt, cruel, self-interested, despicable, and, in short, morally vicious.* Really: he's an evil person."** When I say that I don't mean "situationally evil", and I don't mean "by the standards of contemporary society" evil or "in this context" evil. I mean flat out evil. You are morally reprehensible. Really – absolutely.

Now I'll explain something to you – it's the sort of thing that real professors don't have to have explained to them, because they actually are capable of thinking about and understanding freshman-level basic distinctions and facts from time to time – but I'll explain it to you because you're a professor only in your own bloated vainglorious imagination. When people say "it's perfectly OK to be gay", they are not relativists. They are not saying "oh, well, we simply mustn't make moral judgement about being gay". They are making an absolute, unqualified, non-situational moral evaluation. And this this is how the evaluation is expressed: "Being gay is not morally wrong, it is perfectly OK."

OK, now I'll make another pass through this, because you've made it manifest that extreme measures are needed to get even the most elementary points across to you. Here are two different things. i) Asserting that no-one should make absolute moral judgments. ii) Asserting an absolute moral judgement, which you happen to disagree with. [And I might add: that you wrongly disagree with, because you're evil.] If an applicant for a masters program in our department were to be unable to understand that distinction we would never accept him/her into the program. Because that failure is compelling evidence that the candidate is really thick. But you continually make this elementary confusion. Face it: you're not only evil, but stupid as well. And take it from a trained professional in the professoring trade: you don't got what it takes.*** They denied you tenure for a reason.

*using "vicious" in its old-fashioned sense where it is paired as the opposite of "virtuous", to conform to the opposites "virtue : vice" (see, for example David Hume or Gibbon) I do this because Newt is, like, a professor and everything.

** And stupid, too, though that is not a moral vice. However, your brand of willed ignorance probably is.

***Since this thread is going dormant, I reserve the right to repost the rant in it's entirety the next time Newt ever spews this "liberals say you shouldn't make moral judgments" sewage.