I am not choosing to be a vegetarian, so deal with it.
The teacher contacted me because of her 'flippant' response and I told her and the school principle that my daughter would be happy to turn in a paragraph with the prompt 'Choose either to be a vegetarian or a carnivore and support your choice,' but she would not write a paper on a personal choice that someone else made for her.
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen
Gay marriage ban no benefit to societyBy RICHARD COHEN
Published Monday, July 17, 2006
There are exactly 316 benefits of marriage. I learned that from the decision of New Yorks highest court upholding the ban on same-sex marriage, which means that the often-wed Elizabeth Taylor has enjoyed these benefits 2,528 times, while a lesbian could not have any of them, despite having a stable relationship and a child or two.
If it pleases the court, your decision is just plain idiotic.
I choose Taylor because she is everything this very important court - New York, after all - did not take into account in upholding its touchingly Victorian version of marriage.
The majority decision, written by Judge Robert Smith, more or less said that marriage has traditionally been between opposite sexes - and, until the Legislature decides differently, it should stay that way. Reading the decision induces vertigo from page after page of circular reasoning.
More compelling, more logical, more humane is the dissent of Chief Judge Judith Kaye, who likened the ban on same-sex marriage to the one that once prohibited interracial marriage in 30 states. When, at last, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 finally outlawed this racist prohibition in the 17 states that still retained it, its defenders argued - much as do opponents of homosexual marriage today - that it was unnatural and contrary to the will of God. For some reason, God did not file an amicus brief.
With same-sex marriage, the issue we are told is children. Even though the court observes that same-sex partners are not likely to have a child by "accident or impulse," it goes on to say something downright mysterious: "The Legislature could rationally believe that it is better, other things being equal, for children to grow up with both a mother and a father." Those italics are my own insidious contribution because, really, there is nothing rational about such a belief. It is based solely and exclusively on staying in chambers or, when venturing out, going no farther than the ninth hole.
I am particularly and intimately close to one same-sex couple. I know their child, now a grown woman and - should you ask - heterosexual. She had the benefit of a loving home - although her parents had none of the 316 benefits mentioned above, some of them as mundane as visitation rights in a hospital. I can claim nothing special about her. She is neither better nor worse than people raised in more conventional circumstances. She is, though, the niece I love, and I know - probably better than Judge Smith - whereof I speak.
I know the children of similar relationships. Again, look as hard as you can, and all youll see are kids - ordinary kids. I know many more children of heterosexual relationships, and once again, its a mixed bag.
If you can find a rule here, you either have better eyes than most social scientists, or you are blinded by ideology. Throughout history, kids have been raised by a single parent, three parents, no parents - my father, the orphan - or in traditional, two-parent families, such as the killers of Columbine.
Judge Smith does suggest one salient point: As unjust as the present situation is, it should be the New York Legislatures obligation to fix it, not the courts. This strikes a chord with me because if we have learned anything in the 33 years since the Supreme Court insisted on a right to an abortion, it is sometimes better to have such advances based on legislative, as opposed to judicial, decisions.
Gay marriage, like abortion, is a highly emotional issue and, at the moment, commands nowhere near overwhelming support.
Depending on how the question is asked and the polling organization itself, anywhere from 40 percent to nearly 60 percent of Americans oppose same-sex marriage. If the latter figure is accurate, permitting same-sex marriage by judicial fiat would produce yet another protracted fight over yet another social issue. Roe has been bad enough, thank you.
Yet the case for same-sex marriage is so much clearer and easier to make than the complexities that produced the tortured reasoning of Roe. It is based primarily on the easily understood and widely accepted words of the Declaration of Independence: "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Because none of the counterarguments can prove any damage at all to society, the New York State high court missed a chance to further an education process and, justly, grant to homosexuals and lesbians the benefits of marriage so casually granted to heterosexuals.
Way before getting to 316, its clear one of the benefits is as American as apple pie: the pursuit of happiness itself.
Not all schools are like this.
My son is in seventh grade in the Bible belt. He is scheduled to start sex ed in a week. I examined the curriculum. It is straight up abstinence, in gender segregated classes. I called the school and asked some questions, indicating that we used to live in CA, and so I was concerned. The teacher I spoke to said “But we’re in the Bible belt. In fact, we’re the buckle.”
There will be absolutely no discussion of homosexuality, and
if any inappropriate questions are asked the teacher will only say “We are not going to discuss that, please ask your parents.” I am pleased, and happy that my faith in my school district is once again justified.
Homosexuality is 100% about recreational sex.
All sexual education requires parental consent and approval,
100% of all lessons with homoseuxal conent requires the consent and approval of parents.
In additional seriousness, OUTSIDE of the public school context, exposing 10 and 11 year olds to homosexual materials would be a criminal act.
Obviously the reporter could learn the teacher’s name from one of the PO’ed parents, but chose not to publish it.
A liberal teacher tried to shove in a piece of propaganda. I read the editorial, and it was much to advanced for 5th graders to understand. They can not conduct a proper response to that. They are too young to understand the moral risks, health risks, and societal implications of permitting same sex marriage. They just figure that it should be permitted because the two people love each other, and they should be able to get married.
If only more schools would listen to their parents.
All education should be private, startng with K-12. Parents should vote with their feet by sending kids to private schools. If there are not enough private schools, parents should join together and incorporate new private schools in their area. This would cut state and local taxes on average by 50%, and put the socialist educrats out of business. Free market competition will take care of pricing and quality.
Ditto for public colleges and universities. Parents should stop paying for junior or sis to be brain-washed by liberal lunatics. Choose private colleges that are conservative, such as www.hillsdale.edu. If there are not enough suitable colleges, start new ones.
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Come hell or high water, the homosexuals are going to have legal access to kids. Allowing adoption is nothing short of the worst kind of child abuse.