Leather Pub, 1999. She is not pompous because she is standing for moral values. She is pompous, in my opinion, because she is smug and arrogant about her stands. I don't believe that the whole world fits nicely into little boxes with pretty paper. Life is not black and white.
Life is a series of choices and lessons.
Everyone sometimes makes choices that they later regret. The consequences of our actions are how we learn. Most of the callers on Dr. Laura's show are people who have made regretful choices and are now trying to make better ones, or they are facing decisions and seeking advice before making a choice. People in those situations do not benefit from insults. People are not either truly and totally good or else they are truly and totally evil.