This is just beyond the pale for me. Apparently, on April 25, 2008, gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgendered persons, and their supporters, will be holding a National Day of Silence. According to what I have read on the subject, students across the country will be silent for the day. They will be handing out cards that say they are being silent to represent the silence that people who choose these alternate lifestyles are forced into by the big, bad heterosexuals.

Now, were this as it started out, occurring on college campuses across the country, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. It would be a lot of people over the age of consent using their freedom of expression to voice (so to speak) what they see as a problem--fine. But that is not the case. They are coming after our kids. And I do have a problem with that.

The movement has spread to high schools, and apparently it is being sanctioned by the school officials. What’s more, the official manual at www.dayofsilence.org says that GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network), the official sponsors of this “day of not complaining about how they are treated," also officially sponsors the event for Kindergarten through eighth grade as well! It is unbelievable that they are indoctrinating kids as young as four to five years old into this type of lifestyle choice.

But, I guess that should really not come as a surprise either. Just a few weeks ago, in an article I titled “Who Wants to Homosexualize a Seven Year Old,” I told you about a book that was available to Elementary school kids called “King and King,” or something similar. It is about a prince who, instead of marrying the princess, marries her brother. I suppose that was the end of that family’s line of succession.

But, I digress. At the end of this “Day of Silence,” the students hold “Breaking the Silence” rallies where, according to the aforementioned website, they demand “change” (seems to be a buzzword this year) in the way people with alternate lifestyle choices are treated.

According to the organizing manual, the event should, at least optimally, be sponsored by a student club like the GSA (Gay Straight Alliance), or the student council. Students are encouraged to hand out a letter to all administrators and teachers informing them of their intentions, and asking for support and understanding. The site then goes on to tell kids how to organize the events for the day.

Look, I have said many times before that I have no interest in what you do in your bedroom if you are an adult. I believe homosexuality is immoral, and I believe it is an abomination before God. But, if you are an adult, you have the right to choose to do what you want with your life (and afterlife, for that matter). However, I don’t want it pushed in my face in the public arena. Your choices are just that…YOURS. Don’t try to force them on me.

But, this event rises to a whole new level. Now you are talking about my kids, and I get very protective when that happens. Kids, even in high school, are very vulnerable to influences by their peers. Naturally, the GLBT community knows this, and that is why they target kids. But I believe homosexuality is wrong, and I am bringing my kids up to believe it is wrong also. At the same time, I teach them, both through my actions and my words, not to discriminate against or bully others just because they have a different belief system.

Let me be clear on this: I do not discriminate or bully homosexuals. Nor do I raise my children to act that way. However, just as I don’t force my beliefs on your kids, I don’t want you forcing your beliefs on mine! And I just might get a little redneck if you try to. I am from Kentucky, after all, and we’ve been known to have a redneck or two in these parts.

But in all seriousness, homosexuality is a choice. If you choose that, as an adult, more power to you. But at such a young age, kids just don’t have the reasoning capacity, nor the life-experience, to make that decision. Stick with the college campuses if you want to try to target younger people, but leave the school kids alone.

Now I would like to share with you an email I received. It is from the American Family Association, and it reads as follows:

Because of the action of concerned parents, hundreds of schools have removed their school as a listed participant in the pro-homosexual "Day of Silence." You can join the fight for your children too!

On, Friday, April 25, several thousand schools across the nation will be observing "Day of Silence (DOS)." DOS is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools.

When AFA alerted parents of this public school classroom disruption by homosexual student activists, many took action immediately! If you haven't gotten involved, it's critical that you do so today!

A simple phone call or letter to school administrators, telling them your child will not attend school the day it observes DOS, may be enough to cause some participating schools to change their plans. Sample letter here.

Please listen to a 60-second radio ad warning parents about Day of Silence, then forward this email to your local Christian or conservative radio station. Ask them to broadcast it as a Public Service Announcement (PSA)! MP3 file or WAV file

Click here for Frequently Asked Questions about the Day of Silence.

In the past week alone, over 200 schools have announced they are dropping plans to participate. Please, get involved for the sake or your children, and all children, today!

Take Action!
What should parents do? Check with your local school principal to see if your child's school will be participating in DOS. If the school is participating, notify other parents about DOS and ask them to join in keeping their children out of school on that day.
Here is a partial list of schools which are expected to participate in DOS: (the website is: http://www.missionamerica.com/homosexual.php?articlenum=70). If your school is listed, call your local school and ascertain whether they officially or passively allow students to observe "Day of Silence." If your school is listed, please double-check with your local school to see if the school is actually sponsoring DOS. Sometimes the "participation" turns out to be a handful of kids who are saying they have a homosexual club and are observing this protest day, but without school endorsement. We sincerely hope your school, if listed, is not actually an official sponsor. If it is not, we will take them off the list, if a school official asks us to do so. Please e-mail your correction to webmaster@missionamerica.com.

Some tips:
Be sure of the date that DOS is planned for your school. (The national date is April 25, but some schools observe DOS on a different date.)
Inform the school of your intention to keep your child home on that date and explain why. Click here for a sample letter.
Explain to your children why you're taking a stand: Homosexual behavior is not an innate identity; it is a sinful, unnatural and destructive behavior. No school should advance a physically, emotionally, and spiritually destructive sexual lifestyle to students.
Schools do not have to tolerate students remaining silent in class. Schools can adopt policies that require parental consent for students to attend any club, including those premised on sexual orientation or gender identity. Click here for more information from Attorney Mat Staver with Liberty Counsel who provides free information to parents, students, and schools regarding their rights associated with noncompliance on the Day of Silence.

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It is time for another candidate profile. This time, we shall examine a man who has been termed by some as a little on the left (of Joseph Stalin)! Of course, I am speaking of Barack Hussein Obama. The issue at hand: abortion

I had received a special report called “Barack Obama Exposed” from Human Events, www.humanevents.com. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost that in the never-ending abyss that is “my documents” in my computer. It had some pretty startling facts in it. So, I will try to find as much as I can online to save you, my fellow Opinionators, from having to do the grunt work to find all this information yourselves; I’ll grunt for you.

The first item to which I would like to point your attention is an article titled, “Barack Obama states abortion position to NARAL,” found at The Flying Facist website. In his position, Barack Hussein Obama states: “A woman’s ability to decide how many children to have and when, without interference from the government, is one of the most fundamental rights we possess.”

You know, I half-way agree with him here. The message would be perfect were he speaking to a group of high school girls about abstaining from sex until marriage. Were he telling them, “don’t have sex without birth control, even after marriage, unless you are ready and able to provide a child with the love and resources that it takes to bring that child up in a healthy, stable family,” that would be a great message.

Unfortunately, that is not the message that Barack Hussein Obama is trying to send. Instead, his is a message of trying to preserve abortion as a method of choosing if and when to have a baby. In other words, he is using this as another form of birth control. He is saying that if the child is inconvenient, kill it. Plain and simple.

Barack Hussein Obama further goes on to say, “I believe we must work together to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies.” He then pays a little lip service to the less “blood-thirsty” among civilization by talking a little about contraceptives and sex education. But it all leads back to the same thing: murdering babies.

The obvious best way to “reduce the number of unintended pregnancies” is to not have sex in the first place. However, I am in agreement with the majority here, and realize that this is not, in all cases, a viable possibility. Thus, the second-best way to reduce unintended pregnancies: birth control…BEFORE intercourse…not the “morning after.” In my Right Opinion, that is abortion as well.

I just love the little euphemisms that these liberals put on topics dealing with abortion. It’s not abortion, it’s “family planning.” And it’s not “the abortion pill” that the female takes AFTER becoming pregnant, it’s the “morning after pill,” the “Plan-B pill,” or my favorite, “emergency contraception.” The emergency was BEFORE you laid down with that man last night and didn’t have a condom, now it’s just reality!

From one of my favorite websites, www.ontheissues.org, we see deeper into what Barack Hussein Obama has planned for our great nation. For, in Illinois, he was a notorious supporter of abortion. Even partial-birth abortion.

This next portion is very graphic, but necessary, to try and show you just how horrific partial-birth abortion is. It is called “partial-birth” abortion for just that reason…it is partial birth. The baby has reached a phase, in the third trimester usually, where it could sustain itself, were it given the opportunity. Read this next part from www.abortioninfo.net.

“In September, 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years or (sic) experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself ‘very pro-choice,’ she didn't think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
‘ I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen.’

And there it is. There is what Barack Hussein Obama, and millions of other liberal “Americans,” want to allow to happen to our future. How despicable is that? Twice, as an Illinois senator, Obama voted to allow these types of abortions. All because the baby might have been an inconvenience to the parent(s).

Getting back to ontheissues.org:

Q: What us your view on the decision on partial-birth abortion and your reaction to most of the public agreeing with the court's holding?

A: I think that most Americans recognize that this is a profoundly difficult issue for the women and families who make these decisions. They don't make them casually. And I trust women to make these decisions in conjunction with their doctors and their families and their clergy. And I think that's where most Americans are. Now, when you describe a specific procedure that accounts for less than 1% of the abortions that take place, then naturally, people get concerned, and I think legitimately so. But the broader issue here is: Do women have the right to make these profoundly difficult decisions? And I trust them to do it. There is a broader issue: Can we move past some of the debates around which we disagree and can we start talking about the things we do agree on? Reducing teen pregnancy; making it less likely for women to find themselves in these circumstances.
Source: 2007 South Carolina Democratic primary debate, on MSNBC Apr 26, 2007

M.R.O. says this is just stupid, but typical. There is a method here folks. What he doesn’t say here is that he wants abortion made available to minors, without the girl’s parents’ knowledge or consent. Now here’s the kicker. If the federal government does what Barack Hussein Obama wants and does not get involved in this issue, partial-birth abortion will be available to our children without our knowledge or consent. That is the stupid part.

Now for the typical part: If you notice, Sen. Barack Hussein Obama minimizes the issue by saying, “Now, when you describe a specific procedure that accounts for less than 1% of the abortions …” Well, Mr. Obama, according to the site, abortionfacts.com, “The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a branch of Planned Parenthood, aggressively contacts hospitals and known abortionists, and the result is a more accurate and larger figure, which we use.”

They say that the Guttmacher Institute says that, in the 1990’s, there were an average of 1.55 million abortions per year. Taking Barack Hussein Obama’s stats at face value, one percent, that would mean that 15,500 VIABLE babies were murdered each year! That is almost forty-three PER DAY!

So one typical liberal tactic used was to minimize the damage, give a percentage rather than the actual staggering number. But the second typical liberal tactic is to change the subject. Notice that Obama acknowledges that it happens, but then quickly says, “Can we move past some of the debates around which we disagree and can we start talking about the things we do agree on?” What’s the problem, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, is it getting a little warm in that hot seat?

This article is becoming a book. And I already have one of those due out in the next couple of months. By the way, have I mentioned that it is called “Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed: one man’s views during perilous times in America’s history?” I have? Oh, sorry to bother you again, then. But it is published by AuthorHouse, and will be available at: http://www.51756.authorworld.com/ or you can go to Authorhouse.com and search for Michael A. Minton, and order there.

Anyway, you see where Mr. Barack Hussein Obama wants to lead us. You see how little he values life. I mean, we could discuss when life begins all day long. I say at conception, others argue that it starts at various points along the pregnancy path. But I defy anyone with any amount of intellect at all to tell me that a baby that could survive if not killed is not a human life.

Due to the recent outcry from the Muslim community over the re-printing of the old muhammed cartoons, I felt it only appropriate to rerun an article I posted here a couple of years ago.

Gee, I hope I don't offend anyone.

Enjoy,
Mike

What In The Name Of muhammed?

You may have the impression that I do not know that muhammed is supposed to be capitalized, but you would be wrong. And ordinarily I would use a capital “M” when writing about the supposed prophet, but I am not. You may wonder why, and there are a couple of reasons.

Firstly, I live in a Western Republic, under a Constitution that says I don’t have to. Much like the Danish newspaper which ran the “cartoons” depicting muhammed in a not-so-flattering manner, I have the right to say what I want to, short of a few exceptions. I do not have to adhere to some militant-religious-government law which threatens to imprison me, or even kill me, because I don’t capitalize “muhammed.”

Secondly, I, unlike members of the American press, will not succumb to the threat of violence from some religious nuts by censoring what I write. I am guaranteed the right to do it, and I will not relinquish that right in the name of appeasement. As I have said before, trying to stop violence by acts of appeasement only leads to more violence, and thus, more acts of appeasement.

Actually, there is also a third reason I am writing “muhammed” this way, I want to stand in solidarity with the Danish newspaper and government. The newspaper had every right to publish the cartoons. Furthermore, they have apologized for the caricatures if anyone found them offensive. And I stand in solidarity with the government of Denmark for not apologizing for the newspaper, and for the freedom which gave the paper the right to publish the cartoons. It would be a grave mistake for that government to bow to the will of a minority, or even a majority, of any religion.

And besides, the riots and killing that the “religion of peace” is perpetrating have absolutely NOTHING to do with the cartoons. Rather, they have EVERYTHING to do with an opportunistic bunch of self-righteous, obsessed religious zealots who want to turn the rest of the world into nothing less than a muslim one world order in which no other religion is tolerated.

If these “people” were truly trying to protect the name of mohammed, allah, or islam, they would have taken to the streets on that terrible September morning in 2001. After all, did not the terrorists who hijacked planes and killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans do so in the name of allah? Where was the outrage from the muslim community then? The violence we are seeing now has nothing to do with the cartoons.

I am glad to see that there are a couple of newspapers here in America who have not laid down in the wake of these violent outbreaks from the “religion of peace,” and have found the anatomy to print these caricatures. However, I am very ashamed of the vast majority of the American print media who, instead of exercising the freedom of the press which they claim gives them the right to publicize national security secrets, have simply caved for fear of offending a minority of people who threaten violent reprisal. Shame on you!

Where was all of this self-censorship when an “artist” came up with the “artwork” depicting the Virgin Mary covered in elephant crap? The media likes to call it “dung” because it sounds less offensive, but it was crap. I seem to remember all kinds of print media which were more than happy to publish photographs of that great piece of art.

And what of the “artwork” which was called Piss Christ, in which an “artist” dipped a crucifix in a vat of his own urine and called it art? Was the media so afraid of offending Christians that they refused to publish pictures of that? No.

I actually think the media was right to exercise freedom of speech in publishing the depictions then, as they have the freedom to do so, and the “artwork” was part of the news story of that time. Now here we are again, with depictions of muhammed which are deemed offensive to a particular religion, but this time the media outlets are censoring themselves because they are scared. That is absurd, and will do nothing more than lead to more demands and pressure from members of the radical muslim community.

It is much like dealing with your children: if tonight your 15 year old comes home a half-hour past his curfew and throws a fit when you ground him, and you cave to the pressure and lift the punishment, I can assure that it won’t be long before he comes home an hour late. The same is true of radicals and terrorists. If we allow them to dictate our freedom of speech today, it will not be long before they come for the rest of our freedoms.

Now, I know that the title seems to state the obvious. But, before you accuse me of being a dirty old man, I am not talking about anatomy here. I am talking about NERVE. It is rather unbelievable to think that the wives of these politicians don’t have enough self-esteem to refuse to stand next to their cheating, no-good husbands after they have been caught fooling around.

Naturally, the immediate reason for this article is NY governor Eliot Spitzer. But, he is certainly not the first, and I dare say, not the last, to employ this political strategy. We all remember Hillary Clinton going on Good Morning America, 20/20, or one of those shows, and assuring America that she was not a “Tammy Wynette-Stand By Your Man” kind of woman. However, we all saw her “stand by her man” all during the Lewinsky, Flowers, Jones, etc, scandals.

Yes, it is unfathomable, at least to me, that these women continue to stand by their men during these most humiliating moments. I cannot imagine staying with my (former) wife, had this problem come up during our marriage. And I certainly can’t see her standing by me had I cheated on her. What a humiliation and a thievery of personal self-esteem and security that has to be. And ours was a private divorce.

Can you imagine what a strain such a public humiliation must be on the spouse of an elected official? It would be horrific enough to experience this in private. But to have to do it under the scrutiny of the media spotlight adds exponential stress.

But while the spouses’ behavior is incomprehensible, it defies human imagination how these “public servants” have the testicles to make them do it. I could not imagine being caught cheating on my wife, who is the mother of my children, and then actually demanding that she appear with me to try and lessen the severity of the public scrutiny of my behavior. I wouldn’t have the anatomy to ask, much less demand.

Yet there are untold numbers of politicians who have either asked or demanded that their wives do this. Spitzer is just the latest. Off the top of my head I can name many. Spitzer, Clinton, Larry Craig, former KY Democrat Gov. Paul Patton, N.J. Gov. Jim Mcgreevy, Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick, I could go on, but you get the point.

I do want to say that I feel very sorry for the families of these scum. Spitzer, for example, not only has a wife, but THREE, count them, THREE daughters. As the father of two girls myself, I can’t imagine what they would be going through mentally, not to mention all the whispers behind their backs in their social circles. Kids can be cruel to other kids, and they are blameless in this.

Politicians, and other would-be cheaters, take note. You didn’t need your wife and kids to arrange sexual liaisons with prostitutes, so don’t you dare try to hide behind them when you get busted! And that’s the Right Opinion!