This is where we find ourselves when we spend a century inured to the expansion of government beyond its Constitutionally specified functions. It's not just the waste of taxpayer money on ever-metatstasizing bureaucracy. These agencies and departments become sinister tools in the Freedom-Hater goals of governing with an agenda, neutering the cattle-masses, and obliteration not only standards of decency but the basic understanding of nature that the human (or perhaps make that formerly human) species has always had.A top Obama appointee in the Department of Education personally assured a group of LGBT activists that the White House is “aggressively engaged” in the fight to allow transgender students use whichever bathroom they please at school.DOE Assistant Secretary for the Office of Civil Rights Catherine Lhamon delivered the good news at an LGBT summit hosted by the White House in Michigan last Thursday, where she gave the keynote address.The event was co-sponsored by activist group Equality Michigan, which has led a statewide charge to allow schoolchildren choose their name, gender and bathroom, all without parental knowledge or input. Officials from seven different federal agencies attended the event, according to the Equality Michigan website.Equality Michigan executive director Steph White blasted out a giddy email to supporters after the event, which she called “a great catalyst that will propel our collective work forward.” The email included an excerpt from Lhamon’s remarks, which White called “refreshingly clear.”
Spiritual monsters.
We the people will dissolve the Department of Education when we elect a person who says they will do it and then does it. That's it. I think this entire debate over transexuals using bathrooms is ridiculous and blown way out of proportion. But, it doesn't surprise me these days. Oops, I mean transgendered. Anyhow, most surgeries take place when people are in their 20s, so these students are merely "transitioning." Even more reason for them and their families and friends to keep it to themselves. TMI, I always hear said.
ReplyDeleteGood things not found in the constitution: The New Deal, GI Bill, Social Security, Medicare. I don't think you're going to get far with a majority substantial enough to win an election today by trashing these "innovations." But you can find some arguing the other side, as you always can. Then you trash the majority.
ReplyDeleteIt is sick and wrong for our society to be indulging the solipsistic impulses of a bunch of young people who can't even place the years of the Civil War properly, but who claim the prerogative to mess with almighty God's architecture.
ReplyDeleteAnd you are completely - as in couldn't be more so - wrong about Medicare and SS. Government has no business being involved in how individual citizens deal with sickness and old age. The New Deal was likewise a pointless expansion of government.
ReplyDeleteGI Bill? Maybe in a different category. I think it may be appropriate for this nation to say "thank you" to those who put it all on the line and took vital years out of their lives to preserve our way of life with such benefits.
ReplyDeleteAlways wrong to go beyond the functions of government specified in th Constitution. Always.
ReplyDeleteI am confused, SS and Medicare, Government "should have no involvement how citizen's deal with old age and illness?" That makes a lot of people ...pointless?
ReplyDeleteThe health care system would also suffer. "Better to decrease the surplus population?" I think that is not what you meant, what is you mean? Michael
No, Michael, it frees people up to take charge of their own individual destinies.
ReplyDeleteOur legal system is infinitely more flexible than the always right/always wrong dichotomy. It is dynamic, developed through case law rather than a fixed common law. Don't believe anyone who says things like always wrong/always right. They are absolutists and must be pitied for being so far from the truth of the universe--that every thing changes, sure, everything declines and dies too....
ReplyDeleteAnd statutes are enacted by freely elected legislators, always changing with conditions and supposedly the will of the people, but that often gets lost in the lobbies.
ReplyDeleteThere are immutable principles - things that are always right, and things that are always wrong - that ought to guide freely elected legislators. Otherwise, trying to stave off anarchy is pointless.
ReplyDeleteEven Jehovah changes the rules. Consider the polygamy of the patriarchs. What happened to that? Once there were 10 Commandments handed to Moses (alone, I remind you) on the mountain. Then Jesus came along and said there were only 2. Once it was an eye for an eye, then it was on to turning the other cheek.
ReplyDeleteThere is no anarchy in our system of laws not men. Laws have always changed and we have a manageable system for this change. And if you see things in this world that you don't like, just remember His Kingdom is not of it.
"In the same way I will not cause pain without allowing something new to be born,” says the Lord." Isaiah 66:9a ICB
ReplyDeleteBut don't despair, the Department of Education, along with other government agencies may yet be dissolved. Nothing's etched in granite in our dynamic legal system. Once there was Prohibition, then there wasn't, but then we moved on to another form of it which is working itself out here & now as we obladi, oblada....
ReplyDeleteNationwide Prohibition did not begin in the United States until January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, and was repealed in December, 1933, with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.
It would be interesting to see if you could compose a, say, ten-point manifesto of what you stand for.
ReplyDeleteGees how does the Bible end up in Political commentary.
ReplyDeleteIn the same way I will not cause pain without allowing something new to be born,” says the Lord." Isaiah 66:9a ICB
Manifesto.... I thought we were done with those? Mussolini.
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