Posted on 10/06/2010 6:58:08 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
On Friday, United States Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) told a crowd in South Carolina that he supports barring openly gay teachers, as well as sexually active unmarried female teachers, from the school system. “Jim DeMint’s comments can only be described as outrageous and bizarre. The idea that someone who says they believe in limited government would support the government weeding out gay teachers and unmarried sexually active female teachers simply defies logic,” said Christopher R. Barron, Chairman of the GOProud Board. “Jim DeMint is doing his best to make Alvin Greene look sane.”
“A real limited government conservative would be talking about getting the government less involved in education – not more involved. Instead of talking about shutting down the Department of Education, supporting school choice and protecting parents’ rights to homeschool their children, Jim DeMint instead wants the government even more involved in our education system, and involved in a way that would invade the personal lives of every teacher in this country,” continued Barron.
DeMint’s comments come on the heels of increased media attention to the problem of bullying of gay teenagers and the tragically high rates of gay teen suicide. “At a time when we need to be having a serious discussion about the silent epidemic of gay teen suicide, Jim DeMint’s comments send a powerful and disturbing message to people all across the country,” said Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director of GOProud. “For a man who speaks a great deal about morality, Jim DeMint’s comments represent some of this most morally reprehensible comments made by a politician in modern history.”
“It is clear that the socially conservative big government wing of the Republican Party is desperate to undermine and co-op the message and enthusiasm of the tea party movement. After a year and a half of attacking the tea party movement for not being focused on their pet issues, it is clear that Tony Perkins and his crowd have embraced a new strategy – if you can’t beat’em, join’em. The tea party movement is about limiting the size and scope of the government and empowering indiviudals. The grassroots tea party activists should reject attempts by Washington Republicans like Jim DeMint to corrupt the movement’s conservative message,” concluded LaSalvia.
“They have the right to be miserable, the same as the rest of us.” -Kinky Friedman.
I don’t endorse it; I just think we have bigger problems, like illegal immigrants, Muslim terrorists, a economy in the pits, and a president who has no clue.
At the risk of getting people mad, I will point out that in 1978, California voters were presented with Proposition 6, to ban gays and lesbians from teaching in public schools.
The initative was doing very well, and was on it’s way to passage.
Then Ronald Reagan came out strongly against it. Even though he knew he needed conservative support for his run for the Presidency, he stood on his principles, and threw his support against the amendment.
On November 1st, Ronald Reagan wrote an editorial. In it he said:
“Whatever else it is, homosexuality is not a contagious disease like the measles. Prevailing scientific opinion is that an individual’s sexuality is determined at a very early age and that a child’s teachers do not really influence this.”
I realise that many people today don’t feel the same way. Nor do I believe that citing Ronald Reagan should change people’s opinion. However, hopefully this will at least tone down the attacks on those who agree with Ronald Reagan as liberals or RINOs.
Yup. Either theirs or the author’s spin
Excellent analogy
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This is very courageous of DeMint. Anyone who objects is basically saying "We want sluts for teachers!" or, "Character means Squat!"
Used to be that teachers were considered role models and had to be of good character as well as knowing their subjects to qualify. Since children spend more hours a week with teachers than with their parents, it's rational to want teachers of good moral character influencing our children.
Bravo, Jim DeMint!
Thanks.
I also support barring “openly gay’ teachers, at the very least from 8th grade and below.
I was dissappointed in the idea of kicking women out of teaching jobs if they kept their children, but allowing them to stay if they aborted. It seems rather backwards. Of course, this wasn’t DeMint’s position, but some freepers argued the point.
DeMint seemed to be against women who both had sex, had a child, and were actively living with a boyfriend.
You can always ping me, too!
Barron is lying. DeMint did say he wants to eliminate the Dept. of Education. Barron is a militant homosexual activist so 'nuff said.
The queer agenda is far clearer now than it was in 1978.
Most obvious: should "tom-cat" jocks be entrusted with coaching high-school cheerleaders, basketball or soft-ball teams?
What's the difference between this and allowing openly gay advocates the same intimacy with same-sex adolescents and pre-adolescents?
More to the point: many gays claim that their inclinations are not any matter of choice,but genetics defining their orientation. Yet I have seen an openly gay man fall deeply in love with a woman. I don't know of her prior history.
Now: I have been led to believe that a significant number of gays engage in sex with minors-- not all, but in greater percentages than among heterosexual. If the Gay lifestyle isn't a conscience choice,as I've so often heard claimed, then how can pederasty differ? How do you explain the statistical divergence of its occurrence between homo- and heterosexuals?
To my mind pederasty is loathsome, despicable, heinous because it is exploitative-- regardless from which side it emerges. I have gay friends and know that they share my disgust.
Nevertheless, my understanding-- and I may be misinformed-- is that there is a stronger co-relation between 'gays' and this than among us 'straights.'
Yes, I'm aware of the historical precedents of child-brides and such over the last 200 years, but there were circumstances different from present ones.
This is a question, not a statement. I would welcome, with repect, any gay freepers' reply.
Yes, I'm a liberal, which is why I'm a conservative.
So a militant homosexual activist who promotes the lie that homosexuals are born that way and cannot change is accusing someone else of being morally reprehensible? What a freaking joke. Bad joke. The way to curb teen "gays" from committing suicide is to tell them the truth - that the "gay" life kills, and there is hope - there are organizations that help them leave the "gay" life, and they are NOT born that way.
Herein lies the rub! In our fervor to defeat the left, how much of the “center” can we admit?
Fiscal conservatives cast a wide net.
Social conservatives start excluding based on their doctrinal hot buttons.
My dilemma is that all conservatives have a sense of right and wrong. From whence does that derive? If there is no God, there is no such thing a right and wrong, only moral relativism; we are no different than our opponents.
Au contraire, it is clear that the leftist militant non-conservative GOProud and other like homo-nazis want to divide Republicans so that their agenda and not the conserative agenda will prevail.
See pissant’s comment above. He said pregnant unmarried teachers.
And note my comment above as well. Used to be that teachers had to be of good character.
Things seemed to work back then.
I think Reagan may say something differently today, 40 years later.
To find out a well concealed secret 40 years ago and not fire the person, was one thing, but today when a homosexual teacher can parade it, speak out on it, flaunt it, choose lessons that incorporate it, and flaunt memberships and affiliations on his car and basically be a salesmen for homosexuality and the homosexual political agenda, Reagan might be open to another view from parents.
There was IIRC two threads lately wherein DeMint said that the Dept. of Ed. among others should be eliminated.
Barron is a lying militant homosexual activist scumbag.
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