The Right Not to Be Loved

The most disastrous people in America, says the author, have taken up the cult of wholesale love. She maintains love should be discriminatory.

‘Everyone has the right to be loved,” say the “love” cultists, dampening their spaniel eyes and flooding everything in sight with warm pink jello. If you contest this, they look crushed, fold their hands prayerfully, and whimper softly in their throats—and hate you like all hell in their cold black hearts. If you add to your disagreement the statement that only God has an inherent right to be loved, then they’ve got you! At the very least you are a McCarthyite, and therefore detestable, if not outright dangerous.

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The most disastrous people in America, says the author, have taken up the cult of wholesale love. She maintains love should be discriminatory.

‘Everyone has the right to be loved,” say the “love” cultists, dampening their spaniel eyes and flooding everything in sight with warm pink jello. If you contest this, they look crushed, fold their hands prayerfully, and whimper softly in their throats—and hate you like all hell in their cold black hearts. If you add to your disagreement the statement that only God has an inherent right to be loved, then they’ve got you! At the very least you are a McCarthyite, and therefore detestable, if not outright dangerous.