A little loathing and perplexment.

This administration commits impeachable compromises of our security every single day. They ship weapons to drug dealers in Mexico. They Mirandize Enemy Combatants before we have a chance to interrogate them.  We allow our sovereign territory to be over run in foreign lands.  All of this is directly traceable back to the current occupiers of the White House.  Why our supposed elected representatives in Washington stand by and do absolutely NOTHING is beyond me. Are our elected officials all just so concerned with their own little fiefdoms that they could care less about America? We have a 17 trillion dollar debt, a military crippled by fiscal neglect, an explosive entitlement class, rotting moral fiber and redundant public works projects. We are slowly, but surely, marching into choice between a dictatorial remedy, or extinction.As Margaret Thatcher said so well, "Eventually, you run out of other people's money." At that point, we will have the revolution, just like Greece, and since there will be no country to bail us out of our debt, we will implode and the rabble will elect the first populist that promises them everything or who promises them the most. I am starting to think that the only thing that will save us at this point, besides direct divine intervention, is a virus to thin out the herd.

Balancing Islam, predjudice, and acceptance.

  

A real and admitted Jihadist from Twitter.

       I have seriously wrestled with the issue of Islam and the Muslim religion for a VERY long time.  I have prayed over it.  I worked closely with the Mosque in Cincinnati when a mortician as we had the contract to serve as the de facto funeral home for the mosque.  I personally coordinated the international shipment of the remains of the person for whom the Mosque is named.   I know many peace-loving Muslims, including fellow students with whom I went to law school, and some of these young ladies I would trust to babysit my kids.   I am not some closed minded racist parochial hick that has not been regularly exposed to this culture.  

    I left the religion that I was baptized into and followed most of my life. For example, I used to be a very active Methodist.  The church started actively advocating pro-choice stances, and the church started advocating the Homosexual agenda.  The membership campaign, "Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors"  was specifically geared at bringing in the "diversity" elements of society, e.g. read LGBT crowds.  At the same time, the Church was taking stances on everything from nuclear power to the ways I could work with the developmentally disabled population I served for 15 plus years.   Almost every position taken by the church was not only in opposition to what I believed, but what I was raised to believe in opposition to the scripture.  So, I decided I did not want my money, prayers or presence to support that church and decided to go church shopping.  This was not an easy decision.  My sister-in-law is a Methodist Minister and baptized two of my children and all three of my children were baptized in the Methodist Church.  I attended the membership classes with Julia and was standing beside her when she was baptized in the Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church in Cincinnati.  My late uncle was a Methodist Minister.  My mother was more than once selected as a delegate representing our church to the conference where policy decisions were made.   I personally served as the Chairman of the Hyde Park's Social Justice Committee and we had a larger budget than many charitable foundations.  All that said, I simply could not abide where I saw the church going in terms of its stances on very important moral issues.  These issues PALE in comparison to the actions taken by radicalized elements of Islam.  No Methodist is murdering, bombing, raping or maiming others.  No Methodist is persecuting another religion or exacting a tax for not believing in the Church.  No Methodist is blowing up Churches or killing little girls on the way to school. I also know from my own personal experience that if my religion was taking such evil steps as the one taken by the Muslims, I would turn tail and leave it as fast as my feet would take me.    So, why aren’t all my smart, intelligent, and peace-loving friends? 

    Why aren’t all the Muslims who say they are peace loving screaming for reform of their religion?  I do not understand why they are not  forming reformed mosques.  I do not understand why my peace-loving Muslim friends are not distancing themselves from the violent and misogynistic passages in the Koran and  writing new interpretations which discount the violence contained therein as not pertinent in today's society. 

       You know, on Monday I was accusing radical Jihadists of the attack in Boston. I went on to quote SCOTUS cases that are still good law that justified deporting entire groups who had alienated themselves from US culture and presented a threat. I got unfriended by at least one person, called numerous names, and told to go where it is very warm. (Not Florida).

      Well, guess what? We find out the terrorists are indeed radicalized Jihadists and had already enjoyed the benefits of living in the US for 10 plus years and one was reportedly a second year medical student.

      What does this say? Well, I think it says we are dealing with an ideology like no other that we have encountered in human history and its direct indoctrination of its adherents is an anathema to those principles that we hold dear.

      I fear that the time is coming when we must approach that ideology on the whole and unfortunately separate apart from us all those who choose it over the blessings granted to us as a nation. I personally believe that due to all the violent and misogynistic passages and history of the religion that the spread of Islam can only come from the traditions of Jihad and Taqiyya, i.e. violent intimidation and duplicitous lying. If this last week's actions do not convince you of this, and if that poor little boy's broken body does not tell you what this group is capable of doing, then nothing I say or write will open your eyes.  You or your children will die in ignorance and regret.

Devaluing Marriage and the Rise of Homosexual Legitimacy

       

         The socially conservative folks of this country have no one to blame but themselves for the fact that the Supreme Court has heard two cases in the last two days that could redefine the meaning of marriage.  We are the ones who allowed ourselves to be drug along down that slippery slope in the late sixties and early seventies when the morally relevant said , "If a man and woman want to get a divorce, whose business is it but theirs?"  We are the ones who allowed themselves to be drug along during the "sexual revolution" when the morally relevant said if a man and woman want to have sex outside of marriage, whose business is it but theirs?" (Regardless of the consequences) When the inevitable happened and these couplings outside of marriage produced issue, we allowed ourselves to be drug along when the morally relevant said, "If a woman wants to raise a baby alone or have it sucked out of her womb, whose business is it but theirs"  Each step devalued the meaning of marriage, the meaning of what it is to be a parent, and what it means to be part of an intact family.  

        What happened at the end of moral relativity luge ride?  We have kids killing each other in the streets.  We have at least two generations of children born into poverty, dependency, homelessness, addiction, violence and hunger. We have a lower rate of education than almost any industrialized nation by comparison and our inner city schools are failing so badly that the federal, state and local governments cannot throw money fast enough at any promised cure.  Actually, for every societal ill we have faced in the last 60 years, concomittant with the luge ride, there has been an outcry for a governmental solution or program,  The unintended consequences of these programs ultimately fulfills and ensures a cycle of dependency, entitlement and proliferation of the family disintegration.

     Should we ask a child born to give up a mother or ask them to give up a father?  By allowing sex out of wedlock, by default we are tacitly approving of this.  I do not blame homosexuals for saying they should be entitled to get married.  If it is no one's business of the relationships that lead to societal problems, why shouldn't the homosexuals be able to join in the cabal?  Just like the US dollar has become devalued, so has marriage.  We create both without regard to foundational collateral.  The dollar has no proportional capital supporting it and couples enter into marriage without proportional commitment  supporting the institution. If we devalue sex as a physical act only without any constraints of responsibility for potential outcomes i.e. pregnancy, then we have also devalued parenting and procreation.  If we say men or women per se are superfluous to the parenting equation, and tacitly agree that a child can be raised equally well by any combination of adults or lack thereof, we have devalued the meaning of parenting.   Why then, if one man or one woman can raise a child as well as a couple, why shouldn't two men or two women be given the same opportunity? 

          Study after study has shown that poverty rates are decreased between married couples.  Education is increased for children from two parent families.  Overall society is benefited by marriage.  For thousands of years, marriage has been a recognition of society's need for an institution that provides for a stable family unit.  I frankly do not care if I sound like a homophobe or not at this point.  I get called names all the time about my conservative positions, so adding homophobe to the list of ad hominem attacks is just par for the course.    As a child of a traditional family and as a parent of one, and having seen both the problems caused by single parent families, and the instability that is a known statistic amongst homosexual couples, I cannot imagine them  for the most part being able to adequately raise a child and provide the guidance they need into adulthood.  Children need both sexed parents so they can properly observe and imitate their own sex and roles as well as relate to the other sex We devalued the institution of marriage as much as the US Dollar.  

         The only acceptable reasons for divorce are Abuse, un-repentent Addiction, and Adultery.  If people viewed the seriousness and necessity of raising a child in a stable environment; and actually took marriage for the institution with all the gravity and responsibility attached that comes with it, we would not even be in this mess.  I frankly could not give a flying fig what people do behind closed doors or what they stick in each other's orifices.  If two people are engaging in Heterosexual sex, they darn well better make sure if they are doing it outside the confines marriage that they are prepared and willing to take responsibility for the consequences.  If two people are engaging in homosexual sex, don't expect any of the benefits that come along with creating and caring for a life within the purview of a what should be a stable married couple.