Inexcusable Acts and Hypocrisy

As everyone who follows the news now knows, the United States has been separating children from the parents of (suspected) illegal immigrants, on the basis that illegal immigration is a crime (which it is) and that's the policy in regards to adults who are arrested on suspicion of criminal activity.

Well, that's baloney.

Yes, those who are suspected of criminal activity who are arrested are separated from their children.  But we all know that illegal immigration isn't bank robbery.  This policy should be stopped (and at the time of this writing, it apparently will be).  That doesn't excuse it ever having occurred.

Over the weekend a Democratic politician was on one of the news shows decrying this policy, as well he should have been.  In his declarations he at least twice called the policy "Immoral".

Now, that's interesting.

I haven't heard a Democratic politician acknowledge the concept of morality for so long I can't recall when it was.  I agree with him that the policy is immoral, but I'm stunned to hear the term used so freely by a member of a party that, in recent years, has eschewed a concept of morality in favor of one of absolute relativism.

If something is immoral, it isn't immoral for one person and moral for another, and neither for a third.  It's immoral for everyone.  It's an absolute.

And the concept that there is an absolute that governs morality is acknowledging that there's a greater something that defines what is moral or immoral, not our own personal whims.  This is something that Democrats haven't stood for, for a long time.

Then, within this general time frame, Rachel Maddow, whom I don't listen to as a rule, was to be seen on television breaking down in tears over the story of separation of child from parent. And it is tragic indeed.  Indeed, it's immoral.  But they highly liberal Maddow no doubt (I suspect) supports the surgical separation of child from parent at the whim of the female parent.  And that's hypocritical.

If something is immoral, it isn't immoral for one person and moral for another, and neither for a third.  It's immoral for everyone.  It's an absolute.