<\/a>Source: Wintery Knight<\/a><\/p>\n

Secular leftists (as well as many religious leftists) hold the views they do not because the views are internally coherent, but because they they fear being ostracized by their peers for holding conservative opinions. Moral posturing — holding politically correct <\/em>viewpoints — is more important than clear thinking in the secularist canon. This explains why the moral and cultural conservative is so often greeted with pejoratives rather than any reasoned rebuttal of his opinions. It is also why the defender of abortion loathes direct questioning. He knows his views are weak (applause is more important than any search for truth), and an informed moral and cultural conservative can dispense with them without too much effort. <\/p>\n

In the video below Stephanie Gray, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform<\/a> debates Dr. Mark Mercer, head of the Philosophy Department of Saint Mary’s University held at Dalhousie University<\/a> on March 8, 2011. Gray knows her stuff. Mercer knows very little although he thinks he knows a lot. What Mercers holds as self-evidently true is not so self-evident when faced with an interlocutor better educated and more independent minded than he is. <\/p>\n