California First-Graders Take Field Trip to Lesbian Wedding
San Francisco, CA – A public charter school in San Francisco took its first-graders on an unusual field trip Friday - to a lesbian wedding at City Hall.
The first-graders, from Creative Arts Charter School, watched as their teacher, Erin Carder, married her partner Kerri McCoy, in a ceremony officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. The children were given rose petals to scatter and bubbles to blow in celebration. Some also wore "No on 8" political buttons. The school's interim director stood by her decision to allow the field trip, calling the lesbian wedding a "teachable moment" which she did not consider controversial.
Are you kidding me? She didn't consider it controversial?
In 1787 when the United States drafted its constitution for a democratic government of the people, for the people and by the people, Professor Alexander Tyler (University of Edinborough –circa 1787) wrote about the stages of birth and death of democracy. According Alexander Tyler it takes an average of two hundred years for a democracy to mature, reach its crescendo and then revert back to bondage.
There are eight stages of democracy he observed:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage
Yet, world’s oldest democracies appear to be suffering form apathy, an insidious process that can have disastrous consequences. The democracy in United States is in the process of creating a dependency class because of voter complacency and apathy. Americans who cherish their liberty are now seeing it slowly being eroded by the government that they elected and created. Most defenders of democracy feel that democracy needs to be defended constantly. It cannot be taken for granted. It needs to be protected, nurtured, improved on and then passed on to the next generation.
I was talking to a group of young girls today. Teenagers. And they asked if I am strict with my daughter (who is of about the same age, 15 year old). And I said yes and they were curious as to why. Why didn't I allow her to date........I said she isn't old enough. They were aghast. I explained that I didn't want to pay the consequences for bad decisions made by a couple of teenagers on the spur of a moment decision. The next question was whether I had my daughter on birth control. I said no, I didn't care to pay for that either (just yet) and these young ladies were quick to inform me that birth control is free. Now, who raised these girls to think that anything is free?
Don't they know that someone, somewhere is paying for the birth control?
AAAArrrrrrrrrrgggggggggg! Our youth is being raised to believe that if it is public, it is free! I am so....................I don't have words for what I am.
