Having the nerve to state the obvious

Garrison Keillor is so liberal -
    "How liberal is he, Johnny?"
He is sooooo liberal, that in Minnesota they sell tubes of sunblock that say, "Apply like Garrison Keillor."

From what I know of him, which is basically his radio personality, I like Garrison Keillor.  Though it's about as pleasant as sand in my teeth when his ideology leads him to go against natural virtue or Christian virtue, aside from that he seems like a good, honest sort of man with that kind of folksy charm that reminds me of my relatives from the Midwest.  Or at he least he can turn it on for his writing and radio pieces.

But anyway, the point is that given all of this, I respect the guts and candor he had to have, being such a noted liberal, to write something like this "Stating the obvious" column - the "obvious" being that sex is naturally ordered towards the begetting and raising of children - because of the heat he will take from people who will judge him not to be sufficiently "progressive."  Maybe next he can become more consistent and bring himself to disapprove morally of homosexual activity.

Comments

[Matt]

Does anyone else find his use of “mixed-gender marriage,” “female mom,” and “male dad” as disturbing and deliberate attempt to strip those words of their natural use-defined meaning, or sense? I understand and believe that the meaning of words is open-textured, but this is an attempt by the left to reaffix the meaning of “mom” and the like away from their current usage—something that modern language philosophers argue is wholly impossible.