Have We Gone Mad?
Family Advocates Following the News Ask: ‘Have We Gone Mad?'
The following is editorial commentary on some of the bizarre events happening around the world. In the course of our research, we at United Families International come across news items that we just have to share. The stories that follow below cause us to wonder … “Have We Gone Mad?”
Posted By Julie Lind | July 18, 2007
If asked to guess the intent of legislation named The Military Readiness Enhancement Act, an average person would say something like, “Legislation that would mandate military personnel be proficient with firearms.” Perhaps some would think it has to do with fighting prowess or intellectual ability. All of these would be incorrect.
Here's a hint about the real content of this legislation: Those promoting it are militant, but only in the sense that they are violently against traditional values and the moral constraints of orthodox teaching.
The Military Readiness Enhancement Act (H.R. 1246), actually seeks to force the United States military to completely embrace homosexuality including the once universally prohibited act of sodomy.
The Military Readiness Enhancement Act, originally introduced by Representative Marty Meehan (D-Mass.), is deceptively named. If the proponents of this legislation want to be honest about their intent to make homosexuality accepted in military circles, then let them name it, The Homosexual Freedom in the Barracks Act and see if anyone stands and salutes.
Posted By Lynn Allred | May 2, 2006
It's Elementary
“One, two, buckle my shoe.” Oh, the innocent days of elementary school. But that was then. This is now. These days, it's more like “One, two, call the ACLU!” A six-year-old first-grader from Downey Elementary School in Brockton, Massachusetts was suspended for three days for sexual harassment. Yup. Sexual harassment. A six year old. His “crime”? He put two fingers inside a classmate's waistband. The boy's mother called the suspension outrageous. She said she can't even explain to her son what he did wrong because he's too young to understand. We suspect the lad not only has no idea what sexual harassment is, but likely can't even spell it.
The Love Ward ... Exciting and New!
Patient comfort. It's a good thing. But one psychiatric hospital in Quebec, Canada has taken the notion just a bit too far. The hospital has initiated a program to facilitate a “love ward” for patients' sexual relations by providing private rooms that include beds, televisions and pornographic videos and magazines on demand. The hospital at the University of Laval is running the program on a trial basis for 60 patients, and then if it is successful (how do you suppose they will measure “success?”), all 700 residents will be eligible to participate. The hospital's ombudswoman stated that the goal is to “make sex a positive rather than a negative experience.” Maybe they'll work in a little therapy, too. We suspect the sex and pornography will indeed be positive. Positively disastrous.
The ‘Porpoise' of Marriage?
We hate to say “we told you so” about the extremes to which some will take "marriage." But we told you so, and here's a story of marriage that's all wet. Seems Cupid has struck Sharon Tendler of London, England. She tied the knot with the love of her life--a 35-year-old male dolphin named “Cindy.” Tendler claims it was love at first sight, she was the “happiest girl on earth” and that she really does “love this dolphin.” Whew! That's a relief. We all know how important love is in a marriage. It wasn't like they rushed into it or anything. They've known each other for 15 years. Hey, do you suppose Flipper was a bridesmaid?
A Real Glove Affair
The Los Angeles Times reported on “Glove Affair,” a condom party for teenagers at a California school district. Students attending Glove Affair received a “goody bag” containing a condom; pamphlets on masturbation, oral sex and intercourse; a toy “syphilis lesion”; a "Rubber Bible" featuring alternative names for prophylactics, such as "gent tent" and "peenie beanie"; and an information wheel labeled "Condom Comebacks," which includes a list of excuses boys can make for not wearing a condom and possible rejoinders a girl can offer. If college preparatory tests included sex education, these students would no doubt be Rhodes Scholars.
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