William F. B. O'Reilly, not to be confused with Bill O'Reilly of
Fox News, writes a column for
Newsday that is both fun and instructive. He begins with a group of Connecticut Democrats deciding they can no longer call an annual banquet the "Jefferson-Jackson" dinner because those two worthies were slaveholders and Jackson was an Indian-fighter.
But why stop at Jefferson and Jackson? George Washington was a slaveholder, too. So was James Madison and John Jay, our nation's first chief justice. Almost half the delegates of the first Constitutional Convention owned slaves, and Francis Scott Keyes, author of the national anthem, defended the institution in court. They should be shunned by today's Democratic Party as well.
O'Reilly goes right through U.S. history showing how most Democrat presidents held views that today are anathema. He concludes:
Supporting same-sex marriage is, all at once, a moral axiom in today's Democratic Party. It is a basic civil right. As such, how could all the presidents leading up until the White House's current occupant have missed it? How can anything be named after anyone who so clearly discriminated against gays and lesbians all these years?
It's a painless history lesson in moral relativism and changing mores, done at the expense of the often risible Democrats. Read the whole column and shake your head at the daffiness of political correctness.
