While very much moved by a story of altruism during World War II, ash did not consider the subject too sacrosanct for a punchline at the expense of one of her favorite conservative targets. Note the gentle sarcasm with which she arrives at the "inescapable" conclusion:
Speaking of Godliness, far too seldom comes a story which single-handedly counteracts the sum total of the rest of the day’s dispiriting news.
One such example is the heart-melting account of a posthumous award received by the grandson of Minister Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a selfless couple who literally saved almost 2,000 Jews and others at the onset of World War II. While many noble European Christians risked their lives hiding potential Holocaust victims in the nooks and crannies of their homes, the Sharps took heroism to another level by traveling from the United States seeking vulnerable citizens of Czechoslovakia and France to smuggle out of their countries and across the ocean to freedom.
While reading this article, I found myself asking two questions. First, how could it have taken some 67 years for Israel’s Yad Vashem organization to honor the Sharps, sadly beyond their lifetime, when the war itself ended more than 60 years ago? And secondly, what are we to make of the dreaded “moral relativism” when the Sharps were forced to lie, cheat, and bribe officials in order to achieve the greater good?
Fortunately, there is one question I don’t have, thanks to Ann Coulter, the arbitrator of religiosity. For anyone wondering about the political leanings of these agents of God, if the postulate of her latest book is to be believed, the Sharps were most certainly conservatives.