RE: YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN
"I am guessing but you must be young as back in the 50's, 60's and 70's there used to be prayers in school, just like there is a Pledge of Allegiance. Now most schools have a quiet time without the prayer."
Yes. Since that time the prayer has been done away with. Some schools may in fact have a quiet time without prayer and I believe they do, however I did not attend one of these schools. I don't really have a problem with a "quiet time" since it doesn't hurt anyone or push any sort of religious agenda.
Let me help you with the confusion. There are shcol districts around the country that allowing "alternative lifestyles" to be taught to children in elementary school. As a parent, I have a strong voice on what moralities/value system I want taught to my children and that is not one of them.
There are companies that are promoting homosexuals so they are seen as not being discriminating agains homosexuals and not because they are better employees
as it looks good on their point card.
I recall very little on "alternative lifestyles" being taught when I was in elementary or junior high school. You had the lesson or story here or there about kids that live with an aunt or an uncle instead of a mom or dad. I can definitely believe that they're now explaining that some children do in fact have two mothers or two fathers. What part of this is the problem? As far as I can tell nobody is telling your child to become a homosexual, only to be aware that other children may have parents who are in fact homosexual. It is a fact that this is a situation that exists in our society. Should the child who happens to have 2 male parents be ignored over the child who lives with an aunt or an uncle, or a grandfather and grandmother? The child didn't choose who his/her parents were, and deserves the respect of the other kids as much as the one who didn't choose to have his parents killed in a car accident. How is this to be explained to kids? What happens when your child is in a class with "timmy who has 2 mothers" and the other kids make fun of him? Should schools ignore this or explain it?
As for the issue with companies promoting homosexuals to look good, can this not be said of any minority? The same is done with African-Americans, Indians, Asians, etc. This is an issue that has to be taken up with these companies. There are obviously homosexuals who are taking advantage of this, but there are other minorities taking advantage of it as well. This is an issue that can not be blamed on anyone specifically. The government gives incentives to companies, the companies take advantage of them. The root of this entire problem is the fact that we as a society can not accept people as equals. Instead we promote them to higher paying jobs so that we look like we accept them. If we ignored race and sexual preference entirely, pretended it was invisible, then these "point cards" would dissapear.
If this country ever turns its back on God, this country will go down the proverbial toilet. Things like legalizing abortion, taking prayer out of schools,
removing the 10 commandments off of government property(like court houses), supporting homosexuality and gay marriages, removing references to God in our books, supporting pornography.
So in the end I'm still not understanding how the country will go down the toilet as you say, if these things were to happen. Perhaps god would not like it if everyone suddenly accepted homosexuality, but how would that hurt our country? What negative effect would accepting a group of people have? If anything accepting homosexuals the way they are would pave the way towards accepting everyone else, and doing away with racism altogether. Prayer is already out of schools and I've yet to see any negative effect of that. Also, what are the consequences of removing "God" from money? Or from inscriptions on the sides of buildings? Does removing his name cause him to stop existing?