A column by anti-gay pundit Pat Buchanan, published in Saudi Arabia's Arab News newspaper, is titled "What Does America Offer the World?" Buchanan writes:
When Bush speaks of freedom as God's gift to humanity, does he mean the First Amendment freedom of Larry Flynt to produce pornography and of Salman Rushdie to publish The Satanic Verses, a book considered blasphemous to the Islamic faith? If the Islamic world rejects this notion of freedom, why is it our duty to change their thinking? Why are they wrong? ...
A society that accepts the killing of a third of its babies as women's "emancipation," that considers homosexual marriage to be social progress, that hands out contraceptives to 13-year-old girls at junior high ought to be seeking out a confessional -- better yet, an exorcist -- rather than striding into a pulpit like Elmer Gantry to lecture mankind on the superiority of "American values."
Somehow, echoing back to the Arab world the view that American
liberty is merely an excuse for corruption and decadence seems a
new low, even for a genuinely vile pig like Buchanan.
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