Because western civilization is grounded in Christianity, the Golden Rule used to be something that most everyone in our culture accepted as the norm and automatically practiced in everyday interactions with one another. Even if it weren’t God’s Word, it’s a common sense guideline for simply getting along with our fellow human beings. Treat people the way you want to be treated – presumably with courtesy, respect and kindness.
 

But now that our society is essentially post-Christian, it’s no real surprise that civility is in rapid decline. Look no further than social media where profanity-laced insults and invectives are constantly hurled about with no consideration whatsoever of the individual on the receiving end of the attack. More and more, this mindless anger is spilling over into direct face-to-face contact as well.
 
And now we’re witnessing this breakdown in civility from those we rather hoped would be above such disrespectful behavior, those in leadership positions; our elected officials. (Maxine Waters anyone?) The latest in a growing list of uncivil civic leaders is a Democratic state representative in Pennsylvania who apparently gets off on screaming at little old Christian ladies ~ Dem state lawmaker records himself harassing pro-life woman outside Planned Parenthood ~

A Pennsylvania Democratic state representative went on an eight-minute rant, verbally harassing an elderly woman protesting outside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.
 
 
Brian Sims recorded a woman outside Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, which is in his district, telling her to pray at home, calling her an “old white lady” and lecturing her about her Christian beliefs on the Periscope app.
 
“Push back against Planned Parenthood protestors, PLEASE!” Sims wrote on Twitter Thursday. “They prey on young women, they use white privilege, & shame. They’re racist, classist, bigots who NEED & DESERVE our righteous opposition. Push back, please!”

 
Here’s Tucker Carlson’s take on this class act ~ Rep. Brian Sims is a frothing extremist — and a totally mainstream figure in today’s Democratic party ~

Despite the video you have seen — and despite all appearances — state Rep. Brian Sims, D-Pa., is not a mentally-ill panhandler or a vagrant with a drug problem screaming at strangers. It looks like it. But he is not.
 
He is an elected lawmaker. He represents central Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. And he is a star, by the way, in the Democratic Party.
 
He has hung out with Pete Buttigieg. He has a robust social media following. In 2014, NARAL Pro-Choice America — that’s the abortion clinic lobby — gave him a top award. He posed for a picture with NARAL President Ilyse Hogue […]
 
In the modern Democratic Party, Brian Sims is a totally and completely mainstream figure. He is also, as you have seen in recent videos, a frothing extremist, who is willing to threaten teenagers and attack them for their skin color, simply because they disagree with him […]
 
Sims calls other people racist because they want fewer black women to abort their children. The whole thing is totally deranged. But it’s entirely okay with Democrats. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party has not even commented on Brian Sims berating and threatening teenage girls for praying outside of an abortion clinic.

So do most Americans really want their elected officials to be such hateful, vicious thugs who callously treat other people like garbage? Apparently enough voters in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania do approve of his vile behavior. Perhaps they no longer see any value in following the Golden Rule either.

 
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Related:
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Don’t Make a Martyr Out of Rep. Brian Sims ~

The same demons that drove (the Bolsheviks and Nazis) drive Brian Sims. Again, I’m speaking not figuratively but literally. Unless he’s a eugenicist or white supremacist, there is no rational reason why a white male homosexual should be so eager to make sure that black women kill their babies. Abortion access affects his sterile, private proclivities not one whit. No matter how many times he and his partner engage in the “sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance,” it won’t produce a child he’ll need to kill for convenience. He’s off the hook.
 
Yet he hates, how he hates, the women and kids who rally for Life. He cannot even climb down, not a single inch, from that. It goads and grips and drives him. This is the kind of man, who, given a chance, would flatten them with truncheons, march them onto trucks, and drive them off to camps. It’s the kind of man the left wants to put into power, in 50 states.
 
And that (beyond the moral reasons) is precisely why nobody should touch him. Don’t lay the lightest finger on his exquisitely oiled beard. No pelting him with eggs. Don’t vandalize his house or send him threatening letters. All of those things play into the left’s master strategy, which is to bask in luxuriant victimhood.

 
Pro-Life Rally in Response to Brian Sims’ Bullying (May 10th)