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Guns, God and Gays

Reading the news this past week, one easily could conclude we have lost our minds, as well as any remaining connection with our Founding Fathers. There were three stories that thrice prove we are heading down three wrong roads.

First, there was the Supreme Court's wrangling with the Second Amendment. Should it allow private citizens or only public servants ("state militias") "to keep and bear Arms"?

Is someone joking? Could 27 words be any clearer?! "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Just because Washington, D.C., has a pistol problem (with their ban on handguns), the court shouldn't penalize the rest of the country by resetting the national precedent based upon a biased constitutional interpretation. The Bill of Rights either encompasses the privileges of every citizen in every amendment or none at all. Back then, even other contemporaneous state gun laws aligned with that federal measure.

As Chief Justice John Roberts asked, "If it is limited to state militias, why would they say 'the right of the people'? What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?"

Thomas Jefferson concluded, "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference." That is why Jefferson could encourage his nephew Peter Carr, "Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."

I also was saddened this past week to read about the comic in the University of Virginia's pre-Holy Week, school-sanctioned student newspaper. The Cavalier Daily published a cartoon that pictured a naked man — smoking a cigarette in bed — with a woman in her underwear, who asks, "Come on God, be honest — Did you really get a vasectomy? I can't let Joseph find out about this." The man, who now is revealed as God, replies, "Well, Mary, you're f—-ed."

How abhorring it is when the freedom of the press is abused to demean the biblical God and the most sacred couple in Christendom, especially right before Easter. If the cartoon depicted Allah or Muhammad, there undoubtedly would have been a national decry of bigotry. Yet it seems in vogue to disgrace Christianity, and so it was brushed under the rug of contempt and barely highlighted by any news agency.

One can only imagine how the university's eminent founder, Thomas Jefferson, might have regarded such a shameful posting.

These types of religious polarities are the exact opposite of what he hoped for that academic institution. He actually expected a respectful unity in diversity on the campus: "And by bringing the sects together, and mixing them with the mass of other students, we shall soften their asperities, liberalize and neutralize their prejudices, and make the general religion a religion of peace, reason, and morality."

Lastly, I was appalled when I read the American Family Association report that 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. … DOS is sponsored by an activist homosexual group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network."

Is encouraging or teaching about homosexuality what our Founders expected for the public education system they started? Even the most liberal among them opposed it. For example, Thomas Jefferson drafted a bill concerning the criminal laws of Virginia, in which he proposed that the penalty for sexual deviance should be unique corporal punishment. Jefferson's views were indeed representative of early America:

"Whosoever shall be guilty of Rape, Polygamy, or Sodomy with man or woman shall be punished, if a man, by castration, if a woman, by cutting thro' the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least." Can you imagine a statesman proposing such a law today?

While I'm not, of course, espousing such treatment, I do believe that we equally and adamantly should oppose such aberrant sexual behavior from being condoned or commemorated in our public schools through textbooks or a so-called "Day of Silence."

You can check to see whether your local schools are on the DOS observance list by going to www.MissionAmerica.com. Whether they are or not, write their administrators to inform them your family will be boycotting the event if it takes place in your vicinity.

To each of the social dilemmas in these three news stories (regarding guns, God and gays), a remedy can be found by turning back the clocks of time and consulting our Founding Fathers. They started this great experiment we call America. It seems to me their wisdom is still fit to guide us. It is, after all, upon their greatest work that public servants are called to fulfill their oath of office: "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States …"

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Thanks Chuck, you continue to do 'a great work' in 'reproving the works of darkness' Nehemiah 6:3, Ephesians 5:11.

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Posted by: Alan O'Reilly
Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:51 PM

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Mr. Norris, you are SO RIGHT about guns, and you couldn't be MORE WRONG about gays.
First, it should be self-evident that the Second Amendment protects the right of private citizens to own firearms. "The right of the people" means exactly that. Rights, by definition, belong to individuals, not groups or the people collectively. Where does the amendment say that ONLY members of "a well-regulated militia" may own guns? Of course, it says no such thing.
Now, about the gay thing: While there is legitimate debate about how much and at what age children should learn about human sexuality, the idea of "promoting" the "homosexual lifestyle" is absurd. It's like accusing someone of promoting the left-handed lifestyle. And seriously, are you invoking the words of America's Founders regarding "sexual deviance"? That was the EIGHTEENTH GODDAMN CENTURY, for crying out loud. If we had kept the moral values of the time when the Constitution was written, we'd still have slavery, women wouldn't be able to vote, hold public office or own property, and children would be the virtual chattel of their parents, with no legal protections against abuse.
By the way (and getting a bit off topic), since you seem to be so keen on nostalgia for America's past, before 1915 there was no such thing as an illegal drug. The Founding Fathers would be horrified at the money, time and manpower we spend on the futile effort to stop drug smuggling, and on arresting and incarcerating people who use intoxicants that arbitrarily fall on the wrong side of the law. If you really want to turn back the clock to a simpler time of less government regulation and interference in people's lives, private use and possession of all drugs should be decriminalized. Would you be in favor of that?

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Posted by: Scot Penslar
Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:25 PM

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When will you realize you have been brain washed by your christian leaders? When will christians stop trying to force their limited understanding of Jesus on the uneducated and undereducated masses? They won't. It's a huge moneymaker. Their coffers are swelling. Do some reading on comparative religion, or religious anthropology. Don't limit yourself. And when you do, you may realize the majority of Christians have been misled as to what the message is. When will you realize that you are gay bashing, like a witch hunt. What do you fear? Don't you know, "what you do to the least of my brother's, you do to me" ? Do you really believe that gay bashing from the pulpit or an opinion forum will grant you a favored place with our great God? Do you really believe that raising a child without explaining that sexual desire is a powerful force, but that perversion has nothing to do with heterosexual or homosexual tendancies. The real deviants are in the news when they are caught it is full of true sexual deviants. Perversions commited by priests, parents, family, friends, strangers and these savage crimes are commited by heterosexuals and homosexuals, male and female, young and old. Teach your children well.

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Posted by: liz
Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:04 AM

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The best education in evaluating homosexuality is to watch the San Fransisco gay parade. Is that an example of sane behavior ? Pedophelia is also a strong drive. Does that make it normal ? The gay lradership should promote mental therapy rather than enticing more people into a dead end life , a neutered life.

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Posted by: Daniel Johnson
Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:57 PM

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