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Friday, May 06, 2005

I have been meaning to write on this for a couple of days, but every time I start thinking about it, I get rather angry. Earlier this week, the Washington Times reported that the Montgomery County (MD) School District was starting a "pilot" sex education program that purportedly taught that homosexuality was "normal" and "natural". Several concerned parents, who wanted to sit in on the class (to see how objectional the content may or may not be) were told that they were not welcome in this class. The parents were concerned (after attending a parent information meeting) that the program would teach that homosexuality is OK. When the school district realized the parents intent, they said that having the parents in the classroom would have a "chilling effect" on the conversation. Well, the parents fought back and took the case to court. Today, in a victory for all parents, the pilot program has been pulled from the curriculum for this school year (http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20050505-115955-2689r.htm).

Now aside from the homosexual indoctrination, the thing that disturbed me the most (as a parent) was the whole air of superiority that came out of the school board. The whole "we know better than you about what to teach your child and if you don't like it tough!". Bravo to the parents that stood their ground and told the school distict that WE THE TAXPAYERS, who provide your salary, are in charge.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Two More Reasons We Are a REPUBLIC, Not A Democracy

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." --James Madison, Federalist No. 10

And :www.fee.org/~web/0405iolpdf/ftp.pdf
Again, I also highly recommend Bastiat's "The Law".
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm
Yikes, 'cause in a democracy you and I would be forced to particpate in illegal schemes like, oh, Social Security. Wait a minute...
OK, then... in a democracy we'd be forced to support things we hate and are morally opposed to, like..wait another minute...
Hhmmm... we are forced to contribute to these things.
Oh, oh.
Read Bastiat. He puts it much better than I do.

Monday, May 02, 2005

Track their Votes

I recently started receiving an e-newsletter that tracks the votes of your representatives in DC. It tells you how they voted on bills that came before them the week before and the bills that are pending in the upcoming week.

For example, on the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (that was before the House this past week) you can find out that the only members of the Minnesota delegation that voted against this common sense bill were Rep Betty McCollum (DFL CD4) and Rep. Martin Olav Sabo (DFL CD5).

You can find this wonderful newsletter at http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/index.html. If you are at all interested in how your states representatives are voting this session, please sign up for this newsletter. You owe it to yourself, as a concerned citizen, to know how your state's representatives are voting.