Liberal Humility?

I was truly surprised to read an editorial in our local paper this Sunday offering a counterpoint to  Tom's recent post about the burgeoning 'liberal arrogance."  To put my surprise into context, the Star Tribune is - how shall I put this -- not known for its favorable coverage of the pro-life perspective.  Its coverage about the Planned Parenthood videos has been largely limited to publishing letters to the editor from people complaining about the videos, and stories about how local Planned Parenthood affiliates are "weathering the storm."  One day I heard on the Relevant Radio that 100s of people had shown up to protest in front of a local Planned Parenthood.  I checked the Star Tribune the next day, and found no mention of it.  However, there was an extensive story (with a picture) of the protesters in front of the dental office of the guy who shot Cecil the lion. 

(This reminded me of a game I sometimes play.  Open up the website for CNN, and the website for Fox News.  Are they even covering the same planet?)

So, imagine my shock to read this brave and honest piece by D.J. Tice, exploring this idea:

It would be surprising if our generation produced the first morally infallible era in history. Chances seem good that, like the people of every age before us, most of us today are doing and thinking certain things — or at least going along with certain things — that will leave our descendants more or less aghast, wondering how we could have been so blind.

And the nature of moral blind spots is that we can’t be sure what our era’s worst mistakes are.

I pondered all this uncomfortably when I broke down recently and watched the most, well, appalling of the hidden-camera videos documenting Planned Parenthood’s fetal-tissue donation program. It’s the one in which Planned Parenthood personnel and undercover activists posing as tissue buyers use tweezers to idly pick through a lab tray holding little arms and legs and livers and whatnot.