Posted on 07/24/2008 11:52:29 AM PDT by bs9021
Why We Whisper
by: Melinda Zosh, July 24, 2008
Senator Jim Demint (R-SC) said that unwed pregnant women should not be schoolteachers, and the media accused him of intolerance. What the media did not reveal, however, were the constituents who whispered after the cameras disappeared.
“People would whisper ‘you’re right, we’re with you,’” said Sen. Demint. “They did not want to say that anything was wrong, because they know that’s hateful, wrong and politically incorrect. I notice how much people whisper.”
Sen. Demint more than noticed the whispers, and he wanted his constituents’ voices to be heard. He wrote a book for all Americans called Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong.
Sen. Demint spoke about his book, which criticizes excessive government spending and government micro-management, to about 200 D.C. interns on Capitol Hill on June 21.
“What I’ve seen here on the side of Congress doesn’t give me a lot of hope. [The government] is focused on the next election, not the next generation,” said Sen. Demint.
Sen. Demint said America’s founding fathers focused on the next generation, and they supported limited federal involvement. “Our founders would be amazed at how much the federal government does today,” said Sen. Demint.
When America was founded, Americans did not need the federal government to create laws governing every aspect of their lives. This changed with the social unrest of the 1960s, according to Sen. Demint.
“Before the 1960s, the free society decided what was right and what was wrong … we knew that abortion and homosexuality were wrong,” said Sen. Demint. “[Then] the government came in and made laws and court rulings that switched that upside down.”..
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His time would be better spent whispering into horses' ears.
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My daughter taught while she was pregnant, course she was married. Three of her students were pregnant at the same time, ages, 15,15 and 16, the 16 year old was on her second pregnancy and was able to give my daughter some helpful pointers.
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