The editorial staff lionized her as a judge who renders her decisions with fearlessness and total passion and fully ignored the injurious consequences of her judicial oppression which they had only recently opposed. Such schizophrenic behavior is not confined to Ohio newspapers. In our current national crises regarding the Presidential election, the mass media has passed through some surreal boundary. Emotionalism marked by hourly polls has overshadowed all concerns for the Constitution, the finer thoughts of the Founders, or the objectivity of the rule of law. The media boys just don't get it.
Public officials make public policy.
Those policies have real consequences which are beyond polite debate fraternities and stale, moribund think tanks. In the case of abortion, demonstrated sincerity on the part of the judges who enacted Roe vs. Wade is of little consequence to the 40 million babies who have been slaughtered by their total passion. Raw emotion, while an underdeveloped humanistic urge, is just as dangerous if not more so than its more intellectually advanced and philosophical cousin. The challenge for the reformer is in cutting through the schizophrenia of hyper-emotionalism and exposing the lie of the humanistic ideal with the objective truth of God's inscripturated will. This is not an easy task and is akin to nailing Jell-O to the wall.