A Moral Authority?

Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and conservative commentator, most known as host of the popular Dr. Laura radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three hours a day on weekdays.

Schlessinger is an outspoken critic of practices that she feels have become too prevalent in contemporary American culture. These include: sex outside of marriage, living together before marriage (referred to by her as "shacking up"), intentional single parenthood, re-marrying while living with children from a first marriage, daycare in lieu of a parent staying home to raise their children, mothers working outside the home while the children are still young, marrying quickly or at a young age, permissive parenting, abortion, euthanasia, easy or no-fault divorce, and same-sex marriage. Her radio program often features short editorial monologues on these and other social and political topics, followed by her characteristically direct responses to callers' questions and moral dilemmas. Feminism is a major topic on her show (Dr. Laura was a self-claimed feminist in the 1970s).

It still surprises me that anyone listens to her. I made that mistake myself, once. I love these people that think themselves the "moral authority".
They are pro-life because they have never been faced with a heartbreaking position.
They judge your divorce - knowing nothing of your marriage.
They judge your re-marriage knowing nothing of you, your life or your children.
They judge the working mom without ever knowing or for that matter caring about her financial burdens.
They judge homosexuals without ever seeing them as human beings.
They judge parenting, permissive and otherwise, without ever knowing the children.

This has prompted me to write about each of these - separately, of course. This judgemental, holier than thou, lumping has this woman a tad ticked. Stay tuned, you'll see why.