Good victory in Massachusetts Yesterday

Folks, somewhat belatedly I want to express my satisfaction at the election of Scott Brown to fill “Ted Kennedy’s seat” in Massachusetts last night. My friend Brian Brown, Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage, has said it best:

While in the Massachusetts legislature, Scott Brown was one of the courageous few to stand for marriage, voting yes on the Massachusetts Marriage Amendment in 2007. Now in Washington, he will bring a strong new voice to protect and uphold DOMA against the attacks by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and the pro-gay marriage lobby in Congress.

The contrast in the race couldn't be more striking. As Massachusetts Attorney General, Martha Coakley has been a radical activist for same-sex marriage, even suing the federal government in an attempt to have DOMA declared unconstitutional.

Last night's victory will make even Nancy Pelosi think twice about trying to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. And with Senator-elect Brown as the 41st Republican vote in the Senate, any effort to repeal DOMA this year should be dead on arrival in the Senate.

And marriage supporters were key to the Brown victory. In the closing days of the race, NOM spent $50,000, calling 800,000 Massachusetts households in an effort to identify and mobilize marriage voters, getting every vote possible to the polls for Scott Brown.

After Maine, New Jersey, and New York, Scott Brown represents the fourth straight upset victory for marriage deep in blue America! If marriage can win here, we will win all across the nation!

Our message is a winning message. Voters believe in marriage. And with your help, we are energizing, organizing and mobilizing marriage voters all across the country.

Ouch. That defeat surely must’ve hurt all so-called “progressives”.

Coakley’s elitist hubris also came shining through in this radio interview last January 15 in which she stated that practicing Catholics should not work in hospital emergency rooms, as she responded to the question “Would you pass a health care bill that had [provisions protecting] conscientious objector[s] towards certain procedures including abortion?"

Radio Host Ken Pittman: Right, if you are a Catholic, and believe what the Pope teaches that any form of birth control is a sin, uh, you don’t want to do that.

COAKLEY: No, but we have a separation of church and state Ken, let’s be clear.

PITTMAN: Yeah, in the emergency room, you still have your religious freedom.

COAKLEY: [stuttering] The law says that people are allowed to have that. And so then, you can have religious freedom, but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.

PITTMAN: Wow.  Ok.

Coakley’s views may be shocking to many of us, but are unsurprising and representative of the mainstream in “progressive” thinking. According to this line of thought, Catholic’s who take seriously the Church’s Social Doctrine are welcome to contribute to society and be faithful to their consciences in the public arena as long as their views converge with the “progressive” (read: pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage, pro-“reproductive freedom,” etc.) agenda. Otherwise, they should keep segregated into distinct ghettos at home, churches, and other circumscribed private spheres, kept in check, of course, by the truly compassionate progressives.

Coakley’s defeat, then represents a reaction to the Democrat radical social agenda, as well as their foolish attempts at commanding the economy. The “blame Bush, link all Republican opponents with Bush” strategy also failed miserably. Scott Brown won roundly by opposing President Obama’s social and fiscal agenda.

I hope this takes off, really. I am convinced that health care, the war against Islamo-fascism, poverty, energy, and the environment present real problems, but I am also convinced that creating a command economy and relabeling Islamo-fascism into something politically correct represent the wrong approach to solving these problems, much less reengineering society by doing away with the one man, one woman natural marriage or supporting an unlimited “right” for abortion. President Obama’s future greatness depends on him understanding these core American values and, like his predecessor Bill Clinton once did, “concentrating like a laser beam” on the economy. Remember the cry “Is the economy, stupid!?”

We’ll see how Mr. Obama “recalibrates,” how far and in which direction.