Amy Barrett adopted a poor child. But the Left is trying to to turn her act of kindness into evil. That is the most disgusting thing the Left has come up with so far.
Besides that it is "lashon hara". That is slander. That is to disparage a person for sins between man and fellow man unless some conditions are fulfilled. The source of this is the Gates of Repentance of R. Yona who himself derived them from the Gemara. [That is the source of the famous seven conditions.]
(1) Truth, not to exaggerate, (2) no damage comes more than the law would require, (3) to see it oneself, (4) to give warning beforehand, (5) to judge on the scale of merit if possible, (6) to intend a ("toelet" תועלת) benefit, (7) that benefit תועלת would not come in any other way.
The Left could not possibly know the intensions of Judge Barrett in doing an act of kindness. So it is lashon hara by definition.
I do not understand why the Left thinks that just because they can lie about someone that makes it OK. Do they think it is Ok according to the holy Torah? How is that possible? Have they never learned Leviticus "Though shalt not walk as a tale bearer among your people"? Or the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"?
The only answer I can come up with is that they have not learned in the Mir Yeshiva. For if they had, they would know about lashon hara.
[Most Litvak yeshiva are aware of the problem with lashon hara (slander), but in the Mir there was a special emphasis on the issue.]
