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“Sooner or later, voters in places like that [the South] are going to grow tired of voting on guns, God and gays and start voting on . . . .” so stated the head of the Democratic Party, Mr. Howard “Screamin” Dean back in 2003.
Well, Mr. Dean, as you found out, those along with many other matters of morality are issues that closely impact the lives of all Americans. I don’t think that we are so shallow or naive to suggest there are not a plethora of other topics that we care about just as much; but don’t try to pigeon hole our core values.
We care about our fellow man: America is the most giving nation on the planet when it comes to aiding hurting or ravaged countries around the world. We are a generous and benevolent society. Don’t you and your liberal crudes forget that!
A recent report from the American Family Association stated on April 25, “Several thousand schools across the nation will be observing ‘Day of Silence.’ DOS is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools. … DOS is sponsored by an activist homosexual group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.”
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson drafted a bill about the criminal laws of Virginia in which he proposed that the penalty for sexual deviance should be a unique corporal punishment? And unique it was.
And he was not alone is adopting these penalties. Jefferson’s views were representative of early America.
“Whosoever shall be guilty of rape, polygamy, or sodomy with man or woman shall be punished, if a man, by castration, if a woman, by cutting thro’ the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least.”
Now don’t get your shorts all tied up in knots, Lenard, I’m not suggesting any such treatment. But I do believe that we should likewise strongly oppose such aberrant sexual behavior from being condoned or commemorated in our public schools through textbooks or a so-called “Day of Silence.”
Rather we should offset this type of corruption with a “Day of Prayer” while lifting up loud cries for the Almighty to forgive us of our deranged thinking. This is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they began public education.
Someone has shared with me that you can check to see whether any of our local schools are on the DOS observance list by going to www.MissionAmerica.com. Either way, I would encourage you to write our administrators to inform them your family will be boycotting the event if it were to happen.
A very wise man, Patrick Henry, once stated: “I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.” It only takes a quick glance back to previous civilizations to see that unchecked immorality preceded their decline. That very thing used to be taught in our public schools in history class. How far we have fallen.
Conservatives have been the whipping post for the last couple of decades because of our unrelenting stand for morality and decency, recently for clinging to “guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them,” as Barak Obama described white, working-class Pennsylvanians who preferred to support John McCain.
They just don’t seem to get it. Will they ever learn? Did this great experiment we call America begin on the premise of public servants upholding and defending special interest groups? I think not!
Rather they are called upon to fulfill their oath of office: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States …” That’s quite a responsibility but one that should be taken very seriously and solemnly.
It appears that today’s new liberal politicians are out to do an extreme makeover of America — to remodel or change her beyond all recognition. And when the campaign tour bus has been pulled away, and we open our eyes, then we should simply be happy with what they’ve put together.
Multiculturalism has become the rage while all reasonable common sense has been thrown out the window. No one really wants to deal with the white elephant of illegal immigration that looms so large for fear of offending a valuable block of voters.
Then there’s the comment by 24-year-old Josh Fry of West Virginia as he described his preference for John McCain over Barack Obama and subsequently creating a bit of a firestorm.
He attempted to explain that his feelings aren’t racist, but that hasn’t satisfied the news media. He went on to say he would just be more comfortable with “someone who is a full-blooded American as president.”
Whether he was referring to McCain being born in Panama or Obama’s Kenyan father was crystal clear, nevertheless plenty of political pundits have tried to use the quote to their own benefit.
Yes, immigration trends have shifted dramatically in the past 40 years, as growing percentages of Americans are foreign-born. In 1970, only 4.7 percent or 9.6 million people of the total population were foreign-born. By the year 2000, 11.1 percent or 31.1 million individuals were foreign-born, according to the last census.
What we do need in a president is a man who clearly understands that dependence upon the Almighty is not a crutch and that “clinging to religion” is not a knee-jerk reaction to most Americans but a matter of peace of mind knowing that someone bigger and wiser than whoever sits in the Oval Office has a say in the “affairs of mankind.”
You would think by now that learned and educated men and women would grasp the simple yet profound truth stated so forcibly by the amenable Patrick Henry:
“Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.”
Will they ever learn?
Randy Sheridan of Burleson is a speaker, counselor and
mediator. He can be reached
at drsheridan@aol.com.
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