Just to show how complex this is, though, his publishing depicted a part of American reality. As such, it should not have been, and, indeed, could not have been shut down.
So where does this leave us? No one is completely evil. Even the Devil himself was once an angel in heaven, we are told. And even Evil Incarnated can only exist because it serves the purpose of the Divine. Or so traditional Judeo-Christian theology tells us.
The evil in the case of Mr. Hefner was his treatment of women -- a subject which has become increasingly dear to my heart. The objectification of women -- to dignify the matter with an elevated term -- served to demean them. And America needed no encouragement of this kind, as a body of history is now showing.
The second matter is that of the protests of NFL players. This is a more complicated matter than that of women's rights. And yet, when we are talking about Civil Rights, and equality of the races, the answer should be clear -- people have the right, even the duty to protest. Whether kneeling for the National Anthem (which was made so by Congress only in 1931), is the right way to protest can be debated. But it is not for OML* to use the remaining prestige of his office to demean and badger the protestors. People are free to pay to see, or not; to watch on TV or not. At any rate, as one writer said, when a view is held by the majority, protest is rarely needed. We must vigorously support the right of everyone to peaceably protest.
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(I am looking for the article by the NFL player who wrote about the matter this past Sunday. Eventually, I'm sure I will find it.)
Hugh Hefner Undeserving of Praise
*Our Military Leader
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