Nevertheless, we will always have exhibitionist malcontents among us. I was hooked. The Internet teems with boycott solicitations. And now come the churchgoers, taking aim at Disney. It's easy to understand the motivation behind the anti-Disney movement.
Television tempts everybody to become an ethical grandstander.
There's not a single economic debate on Capitol Hill that doesn't degenerate into a second-rate morality play, in which partisans accuse their enemies of wanting to hurt, loot, discriminate against and abandon babies, moms, grandmoms, the poor, the middle class, the handicapped, the terminally ill and so on. Virtually every imaginable celebrity is getting into the game, as Nike's ads attest. It's only a matter of time until Madonna starts pumping the La Leche League. Southern Baptists, of all people, ought to understand the importance of teaching virtue at home, rather than in shopping malls, and of pinpointing specific evils, rather than indulging in over-broad temper tantrums. A hungry nation yearns for the kind of talk old-fashioned churches provide.