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4-3-98 Dennis Prager spent his first hour discussing the ACLU who went to court to defend the rights of teenage boys to wear skirts at their Connecticut public high school. Prager says he does not care what kids want to wear. Kids need to feel that adults are in control. They fear chaos more than strictness. Prager is getting a bunch of calls from mouthy teens. One boy said that homos should be killed. He was pissed that his little brother was going into his mother's room and dressing up in her clothing. Prager wonders if the dark forces are winning?
A caller wondered what percentage of Hollywood is gay? A large one. One proof, offered by Prager, is the wearing of red ribbons for AIDS patients, rather than ribbons for cancer patients. A large number of homosexual activists are anti-traditional family structures. Prager decried giving same-sex couples the same rights to adopt as traditional couples. Prager does not let his kids say "it sucks." A woman phoned up to say she put lemons in different seal-lock bags. One bag she puts on a smiley face and one she fills with bad words? And the bad one goes moldy? (What the hell was this about?) A caller said that if Prager thought children should have a mother and a father, that it was equivalent to believing that all non-Christians should be dead. In his third hour, Prager praised and read from a Parade magazine article that listed what kids will do differently when they become parents. Dennis says that he grew up in a family that did not touch much. He has gone the other direction in his family. Prager loves to hug. If you did not have a loving relationship with your president, you can fill part of that hole with your child. A caller discussed the definition of "family." Her dictionary said a group of people living under one roof. My 1980 Oxford American Dictionary: "parents and their children." The dictionary does not list "nigger." Prager says that it is important that parents never humiliate their kids, particularly not in public.
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ( Colliers Encyclopedia CD-ROM )
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, a nonprofit membership association devoted to the defense of individual rights under the U.S. Constitution. The ACLU's agenda of civil liberties issues encompasses four general areas: First Amendment rights, including freedom of speech, press, assembly, separation of church and state, and the free exercise of religion; due process of law, including freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; equal protection, including equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities and women; and privacy, including reproductive freedom.
Los Angeles Times Sunday March 22, 1998 On the first day of class this fall, Mulholland Middle School sixth-grader Elizabeth Shamlian wore her new school uniform: bluetrousers and a white, collared shirt. Then she went home and told her parents, "I'm never going to wear this again." In the sea of youngsters who cross the open courtyards at Mulholland these days, nobody else is in uniform either. Three years after coming into fashion, uniforms have not proved to be an elixir for Los Angeles city schools. The initial rush has slowed to atrickle. In 1995, 314 Los Angeles city schools embraced the idea, more than any other public school district in the nation. Since then, only 40 more campuses have enlisted. At many schools where uniforms were once the rage, the look has beenpushed to the back of the closet. If We Really Want to Protect Children by Andrew Vachss originally published in Parade magazine, November 3, 1996.
The stories of children who have been sexually abused, which once shocked us, have become almost commonplace in recent years. Much attention is now being given to the stories of adults who, it turned out, may have been wrongly accused of sexually abusing children. Are we in danger of once again denying the reality of the sexual abuse of children in America? Andrew Vachss - an advocate for abused children and an author, most recently of the novel False Allegations - warns us not to lose sight of what matters most: our kids. Some people will tell you that there was no such thing as child sexual abuse a few short decades ago - the "good old days." And if you go to the files and read the old newspapers, you might well believe them. Unless you were a victim, now grown to adulthood. |
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