Posted on 10/12/2009 12:24:00 AM PDT by bogusname
You have embraced the spirit of fear. The chances of your child being seduced by an adult pedophile who is a stranger is very very small. They are more likely to be molested by a peer.
This stuff has always existed. It’s just that now it’s out in the open and considered “OK” by the same types of people who always thought it was “OK”. In the past they had to hide it in the garage.
As I see it (in my dottage) the real problem is that conservatives have chosen to leave the stage. There need to be many, many, many more conservative private schools to syphon off the attendees from public schools, where “anything goes” is not only accepted but actually part of the required curriculum.
A strong and significant conservative private sshool system could stem the coming tide of having a federally mandated curriculum that includes this junk, for all schools including privately funded schools. There is strength in numbers.
You young conservatives out there need to get together and take over school boards and local city councils.
What has happened over the past three decades is that liberals, with their customary big, loud mouths, have frightened off the more reflective conservatives who don’t want to fight (understandably; no one really likes confrontation). Consequently, lots of mini Nancy Pelousi’s have taken over many school boards and city councils because they stepped into the gap.
And, as a result, you have millions of children being exposed to this stuff.
There, that’s my old-folk’s rant for the day. Whew! Now I can go take another nap...
When this country was founded, the church was the center of a community. And our founders, in the first amendment, said that the federal government can never intrude on that relationship.
Had they been writing that constitution now, they would put the same restriction on the education of our young people - the federal government has no place in that setting.
They would have put this in their state constitutions, as well as county,city, and town charters as well.
If our Founding Fathers could see the effects of government interference in education ( regardless of how local) they would be horrified.
Fundamentally, it is impossible to have a religiously, politically, or culturally neutral education. When one neighbor can use the government ( regardless of how local) to force another neighbor to fund their philosophic worldview, then we have tyranny of the voting mob over the hearts and minds of children and their parents.
Government schools are a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination!
We just need a state legislature to pass a law that the victim’s association with NAMBLA can be used as a defense in any murder case. Let the jury decide if they want to protect these monsters. There are a lot of states where to good guy’s chances would be pretty good.
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We are “fighting back” - we're taking on the liars on with FOX and Beck and Limbaugh and Tea Parties and all the legal ways available to us.
Go gin up violence among the liberals - that's who dems are - with their union goons and ACORN thugs. IT'S NOT WHO WE ARE.
“No matter how careful a parent is things can happen.”
The above is true. The only caveat I would add to it is that many “things” can be avoided by due diligence and being suspicious of other people, including relatives. I like what Reagan said;”Trust but verify.” After all, it is children we’re speaking of protecting in this instance. Children cannot be let loose until we’re sure thay’ve learned the habits that will hopefully keep them safe AND socially acceptable to the majority of polite society.
Pornography: there is a difference between XXX porn and erotica. Entire volumes have been written about the differences between the two genres. Let it suffice here to say that erotica is not always naked and does not involve blatant sexual activity, while hard-core pornography involves sexual activity blatantly portrayed, usually close up.
Erotica includes Victoria’s Secret catalogues, a favorite of young boys (and mom gets them in the mail!), and Playboy magazine (which sometimes skates along a razor’s edge between the two genre, in my opinion.) It is generally prevalent in advertising and entertainment media so it has lost the ability to titillate as the public becomes jaded.
That is where pornography and its depictions creep in (I’m not going to provide descriptions - we know it when we see it).
Hard porn unfortunately has many, many sites on the WWW which is horrifying since most children know more about computers than the parents who try to lock out those sites.
I agree with you 100% about pornography. It is a curse but one that has existed since humans began creating designs and portraying human activities. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries archaeologist began unearthing the villas buried by Mt. Vesuvius’s eruptions during the 1st century AD and were shocked to discover that household furniture was constructed with pieces of wood carved to resemble the erect male penis! Westerners were scandalized to discover entire temple complexes in southern Asia covered with copulating couples carved in stone, and so on.
But we know better now. Hard core porn is unhealthy as it seperates monogamous relationships from sexual need. We must return to teaching our children that marriage is the righteous way for adults to behave.
Bad stuff.
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