Posted on 01/30/2002 10:10:09 AM PST by Coleus
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:50:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Pilgrims and the Mayflower also are excluded, as well as the word "war," which has been replaced with "conflict" in lessons about the early settlers, colonization and expansion.
Also gone are most references to the inhumane treatment many American soldiers endured in wars overseas during the 20th century. However, the standards specifically note that students should identify slavery, the Holocaust and modern Iraq as examples "i n which people have behaved in cruel and inhumane ways."
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It's happened once in the State's history when Murray Sabrin www.murraysabrin.com ran as a Libertarian for governor.
I'm not an expert on political maneuvering but I know that the Republicrats have made it almost impossible to do sucessfully. I'll bet there are a lot of sites on the web which can tell you. Every state is different, which is to say some are worse than others. There are no good states on it. By that I mean fair, where all parties are equal.
Back in the 1800's the government encouraged the churches to educate our children. They provided incentives and grants to them.
It was widely reported that Bishop Edward T. Hughes chastised Governor James McGreevey at the end of the Catholic School's Mass on Saturday, January 26, 2002.
It was also misreported that Governor McGreevey was praised at the Mass. He was not.
There were two mentions of the Governor during the ceremonies and Mass.
The Governor's proclamation was read and here is what it says:
WHEREAS, Catholic schools in the State of New Jersey have had over a century of service, educating millions of New Jerseyans in preparation for their responsibilities as citizens of this state and as members of society; and
WHEREAS, the 423 Catholic schools in New Jersey currently provide over 152,000 students with quality educational programs which also emphasize the formation of moral values and a commitment to community service; and
WHEREAS, parents who send their children to nonpublic schools assist New Jersey in reducing the rising costs of public education for their children; and
WHEREAS, parents who support such education make a major contribution to the public welfare by exercising their constitutional rights to choose nonpublic education for their children; and
WHEREAS, the welfare of New Jersey requires that this and future generations of school-age children are assured ample opportunity to develop to the fullest their intellectual capacities;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, James E. McGreevey, Governor of the State of NEW JERSEY, do hereby proclaim
January 27 to February 2, 2002
as
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
in New Jersey, recognizing their theme of "Catholic Schools: Where Faith and Knowledge Meet," and call on all citizens of the Garden State to recognize the contribution of Catholic schools make to education in our state and commend their faculties, students, and parents for their dedication and devotion to the quality education given to New Jersey's most precious resource, our children.
Given, under my hand the Great Seal of New Jersey, this eighteenth day of January in the year of Our Lord two thousand and two and of the Independence of the United States, the two-hundredth and twenty-sixth.
James E. McGreevey, Governor
Given Governor McGreevey's opposition to school choice and his defiance of the church's moral teachings he either did not read what he signed or he is duplicitous.
Msgr. Michael Alliegro said this in his homily:
"But sometimes we forget what we have been taught. There are some who turn their backs on their, roots or their origins. Truly great people dont. No matter how high they climb, or how successful or powerful they become, they dont forget where they came from.
Our own governor is the product of the Catholic Schools of this diocese. We must remind him of his own roots and what he was once taught in Carteret and Metuchen, the Catholic education that formed him and what his own parents sacrificed to give him. What would be lost in if all this disappeared?
Perhaps out there in our diocese, theres a young boy or girl who could one day be governor, too, but wouldn't be able to because there were no Catholic schools to form them".
The priests of our State must be supported in their efforts to defend the sanctity of Life.
Governor McGreevey continues to attempt to portray himself as a Catholic. As a divorced man who has been remarried outside the church, by an Episcopalian priest, Governor McGreevey may not receive the sacraments.
His opposition to church teaching on abortion, homosexuality, free needles for drug addicts and poor parent's right to choose the school that educates their children, places him at odds with the church.
Far from being a defender of the church, as all Irish Catholic Hibernians are supposed to be, Governor McGreevey is a disgrace to the oath that he took as a Hibernian and is not a Catholic in good standing.
His appearance on the cover of the National Hibernian Digest, and his continued membership in the Hibernians is a fraud. He will always be Irish but he is clearly now a Protesta
I found this on another FR post. You may want to save it for future reference.
Most folks laugh at it. I just feel sad.
By this time next year, we will be talking about how good it was back then.
Political correctiveness destroy this nation in less than 10 years.
I doubt if anyone in these schools can.
Real schools.
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