By
Matt
Walsh
In
case you didn’t hear, there was some serious breaking news this week: It turns
out that Vice President Pence and his wife are in a healthy, normal marriage,
and they love each other very much. It was revealed in an interview with Karen
Pence that she and her husband have established some basic boundaries, which
include a policy where neither will go out to eat alone with a member of the
opposite sex. This is the part that has gotten a lot of attention in the news
and on social media.
Unfortunately,
there is a large population of abnormal and indecent people in our country, so
the story provoked the opposite sort of reaction. The media wrote marveling,
condescending headlines about the “strict rules” adopted by the puritanical
Pences, while a herd of cackling hyenas on Twitter spent all of last evening
mocking Mike and Karen Pence and anyone else who may agree with their prudent
approach to marriage. I, inadvertently, found myself in the midst of the hyena
swarm when I sent out a couple of tweets agreeing with the Pence marriage
policy, and wondering aloud what could possibly be an appropriate reason for a
married person to go on a dinner or lunch date with someone of the opposite
sex.
I
really didn’t think the issue, or my position on it, was that big of a deal, so
I went to bed and forgot about it. The next morning I woke up to find that I’d
been trending on Twitter and my tweets had received thousands of hysterical,
angry, vulgar responses in the span of just a few hours. People were screaming
at me for my “oppressive,” “backwards” and “chillingly psychotic” views, and
accusing me of condoning Shariah Law (incidentally, this is the first time I’ve
heard any liberal actually criticize Shariah Law). Oddly, I was even accused of
being a rape apologist and dehumanizing women. And, again, this is all because
I said a married man shouldn’t have a one-on-one dinner with a woman who isn’t
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