Posted on 06/14/2006 7:56:56 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
Emancipating slaves and extending the vote to women were both once viewed as "wishful fantasy". Don't let the socialist monster convince you that resistance is futile.
There are still a number of US states where 12 year olds can legally marry with the consent of a court and/or parents. I don't expect that consent is granted much anymore but it's still on the books, and it wasn't so many decades ago that it was fairly common, usually when the girl was pregnant. And in the early years of our nation, it wasn't terribly uncommon for girls to be married off at 13 or 14, even without a pregnancy to rush the issue. In an agrarian, largely illiterate society, once a girl appeared to have reached her full height and begun menstruating, it was just taken for granted that she ought to get married ASAP.
I have two Aunts who married when they were 16 (in the early 1950's)...one is still married to the same man and the other lost her husband about 10 years ago. But, then, they weren't brought up to believe that the goal in their lives was THEIR ultimate happiness and sexual gratification.....they understood there was more to life than that....today, the focus seems to be on teaching kids that sex is the center and determining factor of their lives. How sad. My prediction....the next generation will be the most sexually (and otherwise) DISSATISFIED group ever.
Baltodog wrote: 'Whatever happened to good old action/adventure reading, like "Deliverance"?'
I thought that was ironic (I hope intentional!), given that it involves male rape!
The real problem here is that everyone seems to be overlooking the 1st Amendment rights of the students. The idea of a democracy is that all citizens need to be well-informed--well, it's hard to see how the students can be well-informed if they aren't allow to read a wide variety of books. Whether students change or commits this or the other act after reading a book depends upon the student, doesn't it? Or one could ask, how well were they brought up if they suddenly crumbled the minute they came across something different? (Of course, one can also ask if parenting on the model of brainwashing is the best way to go.) The most sensible approach is to encourage intelligence, reasonableness, knowledge, good research skills, and self-reliance in one's children, and they'll be able to handle anything they come across in a book, regardless.
Libraries and Newspapers going with the dinasaurs...I hope. Libraries are not needed today. You can get books at Barnes and Nobel and DVD's at Blockbuster. Why should taxpapers pay for free reading and movies? Oh, someone will say it is part of the bill of rights sowhere....sarc.
I don't remember Amazon.com ever asking me what my age was.
I don't recall deliverance casting being raped by hillbillies as an affirming event.
pornography, sexual promiscuity, sexual perversion is your meaning of intellingence, reasonableness, knowledge and is considered something to have good research skills and self reliance on? What has this society come to? We don't even know the meaning of decency, morality, or common sense anymore. May God have mercy on this nation and it's people!!!!
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