I can’t help but be struck by the way the media is treating the insane verdict of Judge Cashman and the way the media treated the pedophilic marauding of homosexual Catholic priests.

On the one hand we have a judge slapping the hand of a serial rapist. His vision and wisdom seem to almost be worshipped by the liberal media. Now the press may not come out and directly say it, but the underlying current is that Judge Cashman is a visionary; one who espouses the liberal mantra that punishment is abhorrent. Rehabilitation is the buzz word for letting certain crimes go unpunished. Of course if self-confessed rapist Hulett had declared that blacks shouldn’t be getting favored treatment at the University of Vermont or that women as a whole were less competent in math and science than men, that would have been a different story. Then he would have received a long time in the slammer for extenuating considerations.

Of course in the case of the homosexual Catholic priests, according to the liberal media they are the epitome of evil and should be sent away forever. The emphasis in the media was on the Catholic part of priests with a convenient omission of the homosexual affinity of the molesters. In this case the effort was to take out the Catholic Church since its dogma opposes most of what passes for liberalism these days. And it was a clever attempt to protect homosexuals while appearing to care so much about the victims of this clearly perverted behavior.

The contrast couldn’t be more glaring. On the one hand the victim is irrelevant. On the other the victim is the focus of sympathy and great concern. One of the liberal mottos is, “The end justifies the means.” And so in the light of that Hegelian ditty the treatment of these two cases is consistent. It is consistent in another way. It protects the roots of pedophilia.

No wonder the left is petrified of Alito. Their view of the bench is to enact social policy. Since Alito doesn’t subscribe to leftist ideology the left is worried he may legislate policy opposed to their agenda. They may just be surprised. Alito may actually adjudicate according to the law. But be forewarned. If the left doesn’t like those decisions they will accuse him of doing that which they do themselves, legislate from the bench.