Sean Hannity is awfully worried.  He’s not worried about LGBT kids and adults being bullied, beaten or killed and he’s not worried about kids in general being abused by terrible, violent parents.  He is, however, worried about the Government intervening in family matters.

II just finished listening to an excerpt from a Hannity radio broadcast in which the wounds Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson inflicted on his four-year-old son were discussed as if they were the reasonable and normal result of strict parenting instead of the consequence of one out-of-control athlete who was probably treated to the same kind of “tough love” himself.  I’m sure that little boy learned a lesson, but was it not to do whatever set Peterson off or that his daddy is a loose cannon who cannot be trusted to act in a civilized way?  Really, think about it.  What could a four-year-old – a four-year-old! – have possibly done that would warrant a punishment that drew blood?  A few well-placed swats on the butt, yes.  More than that is a maniac at work.

But to Hannity that is private parental behavior that the Government should not enter into.  Oh, he admits Peterson went too far, but quietly.

And the Government’s intrusion into the gruesome affair got Sean thinking about yet another slippery slope:  What if parents were prevented from having unfettered free reign over their kids no matter what they do?  What if they couldn’t instill their values – like I’ll beat you to within an inch of your life if you cross me – in them?  And that thought naturally led immediately to:  What if parents can’t teach their kids to be bizarrely obsessed with the private lives of other people, to judge those lives and to punish those they don’t consider them “normal”?

I’m not going speculate as to why Sean himself is so LGBT obsessed.  Interesting that the Big Gay Terror is so frequently his go-to example, though.

Well Sean, I’m worried, too.  I’m worried that adults who were brutalized as children will pass that gift on to their own kids.  I’m worried that they’re going to teach those kids that fists and switches and bats and guns are a legitimate means of communication, that some people just aren’t as good as they are and that fists and bats and guns are proper methods of putting them in their place – or their grave.

Don’t dismiss this, Sean.  You’re a master of evoking the slippery slope.  The thing is your slope isn’t slippery at all.  Mine is.  Take a moment and try, try, try to consider an experience that’s different from your own.