Johnny,
forgiveness is a personal decision, and ultimately, is in the hand’s of God as you understand him. Kathy issued no spiritual opinion either way, but noted simply that the man was responsible for the death of a woman, for which he was forced to no public account—simply because he had money and familial connections.
your politics are your own, but were mary Jo Kopechne killed in the car of a young George Bush, would you be so very concerned about the spiritual congruity of someone who felt the need to remind us of her death in his hour of despair? would you post snide, rebuking messages at Kos, Pandagon, DU or elsewhere carefully rebuking the posters who noted his actions years earlier.
No one can take joy in Ted Kennedy’s final struggle, as we all will pass that way soon enough. But the notion that it is beyond the pale to mention the name of a woman he killed and has never publicly, or privately to my belief, reckoned with is absurd.
regardless, a magazine and an opinion columnist are about to be shut down by an Orwellian kangaroo court that shits on the very notion at the core of Western civilization. You dont like Kathy Shaidle–got it. She doesn’t like that miffed feelings, fronting for a ninth century political movement, can shut down legitimate speech and inquiry.
I have to say, all in, I like Kathy Shaidle.
