Where have our American morals standards gone?

Question

News of today..Law pending in Calif. that will ban students in schools from saying.."Mom and Dad"..discriminating against same sex couples. New plan for schools..(Calif.) to give out birth control pills to students of age 10-12. ....10 year olds..!!!!!! They think thats ok... Sheesh. Have we no shame?

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Answer 1

Here's a link for those who doubt this:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58130

To answer your question...our American moral standards went out the door when we allowed God to be kicked out of school.
Sorry, but that's just the way it looks to this old lady...

Answer 2

I looked on MSNBC, CNN and Governor Schwarzenegger's website and saw no mention of this. However, It did pop up on several religious backed websites. No school is allowed to pass out birth control or any other OTC medicine to a child unless that child has a prescription for it, so I'm calling that claim completely false.
If you can find the story on MSNBC or CNN, please post it. I have a feeling it is an urban legend as I heard a very similar story a few years ago that turned out to be false.

Once again, if someone can post a reliable news source with the actual article such as MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, then I would believe it. You should question why the only websites that have this article are religious websites that have proven to be unreliable in the past.
If this were true, I would have heard about it on one of the news channels.

Answer 3

Do you really think things were ideal in the past generations, or were parents hiding the real state of things from their children? There was just as much same-sex sex, adultery, etc. going on in the 1940s as now; we asked, and surveyed people young and old. Thoughts of Jesus Christ were apparently no protection against lust -- or have you forgotten about Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, or Ted Haggard?

Teen-age pregnancies, still common back then, except poor families sent the wayward daughter on a "holiday" to have the baby and it was introduced as the latest child of the daughter's mother! Watch the fiction movie THE CIDER HOUSE RULES to see how moral people were in the past! Homosexuality? Read THE KINSEY REPORTS on male (1948) and female (1952) sexuality, based on extensive confidential surveys at the time, and tell me with a straight face that Jesus Christ made it rarer....

In the Netherlands, where you'd be laughed at if you spoke of God in public as a real thing applicable to everyone, they recognize their kids are going to have sex. No ifs, ands or buts. Even the veiled Muslim girls are going to be sexually active. So it's sex-ed for everyone, contraception, and so teen abortions are very few there. A girl who got pregnant in this kind of informed society is seen as "stupid" by her peers, so she doesn't get pregnant. If she has sex, it's her own matter. Nor do they go crazy and shoot themselves in the head at age 30 after 17 years of sexual iniquity. Oh, that's another thing, NO GUNS ALLOWED! So do we want a nice secular Netherlands (or other European) society, or an up-tight hypocritical American society?

Answer 4

They are weakening.

The majority has forgotten that it can stand up on its own and it need not be enslaved by a weak minority.

It is high time the majority stood up and told the minorities "enough".

I am Minority. Im not christian, and I am not any large religious group. I get along just fine without special treatment. Without laws baning other religious things. I am a full supporter of a persons right to wear a cross and read a bible at school. (so long as they are not in class/ not paying attention, and this only pretains to the bible)

I'm also Majority. I am cacasian. Yet I am the person who faces the most discrimination. I'm a male. If a female has the same grades and int. as I do she gets in above me without question. So i am rated as being as int. as someone who is not as int. as me. This goes for all Minorites.

Same for jobs, loans, etc.

it is way the He** past time for us to tell the minorities to F*** off. Today, is not Dr. Kings dream.

His dream was a world where we lived in harmony and fairness. Fairness. Means that EVERYONE is given a fair shot, that no group is given preferential treatment except based on individual abillity.


He would be ashamed. If he was alive today.

Answer 5

it's never too early to start birth control, yes 10 seems young to those of us born in the western world, but there are many places where boys and girls are married at 10 or younger, I'm not saying that that is right, just that it happens, and i hate to bring up the old adage but to me, the kids are growing up a heck of a lot faster than they did in my day, walk through a mall, look at the youngsters, can you tell to within 3 or 4 years how old / young they are, any one of then could be 14 or 10, look at what the parents let them wear, once again I'm not saying its wrong, but do they really have to have their skirt showing their butt cheeks, which many time they do, once again I'm not saying its wrong, and if i was a young male of 10, 11, 12 ,13, 14 or any age i would be happy to see this, maybe the word should be horny, rather than happy, so to me its never to early to KNOW what birth control is and for it to be available, as a parent if my daughter had come home at 11 pregnant and the chance of birth control had been available but not given because some other parent objected to the AGE i would be fit to be tied, we have to educate our children, and birth control is part and parcel of that education,

Answer 6

I think the school's in Maine, and it's a middle school (12-14 year olds), and of course it's wrong to give out birth control pills there--not on moral grounds ("oh, no, they might have sex!") so much as health grounds (which is really another sort of moral issue.) Not wise to give pills with hormones to growing girls just entering puberty, and without meaningful exams and knowledge of medical history. The Pill isn't a good thing for girls who have diabetes or a family history of heart disease, for instance.

Where are students actually being banned from saying "Mom and Dad"? Do you have a link? (I only found WorldNetDaily.) I'd hope children aren't banned from accurately describing the realities of their lives, whatever family situation they live in.

Oh, and I'm a bi, same-sex married Pagan. Booga-booga.

Answer 7

The biggest majority of Americans still believe in God, Country, and family. They are too busy working, raising their children, and helping out their neighbors to get their names in the news. Besides which those stories don't sell newspapers or improve tv ratings. We are known as the silent majority for a reason-we mind our own business and don't get noticed a lot.

Answer 8

America is quick declining out of the hands of God. We already started the process of having commy like laws and rights. We are just diving deeper.

I wonder if God will tell America what he says in Luke on a subject for that day where sin and morals and values meant nothing - "But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city”, just replace city with Nation.

"Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens" Genesis 19:24.

"Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly" II Peter 2:6.

Answer 9

You question is interesting--especially the bit about not being allowed to say "Mom and Dad". To me, the interest of your question lies in your inability to distinguish between declining moral standards and political correctness run amok.

Political correctness is a very real enemy.

However, your question is not as interesting as the reply from Molly S, who is evidently a Christian.

So am I, by the way.

MOLLY S, DO YOU REALLY, IN YOUR HEART, IMAGINE FOR ONE SECOND THAT ANYONE WILL READ YOUR ABRIDGED VERSION OF THE APOSTLE'S CREED AND BE PERSUADED TO BECOME CHRISTIAN?

Knee-jerk Bible punching does not persuade anyone to convert. I wish you would learn that. If you did, fewer atheists would be making fun of us.

Answer 10

The destruction and death we wrought on the original inhabitants was pretty shameful. The need for a war to end slavery was pretty shameful. The fact a bunch of folks innocents died to give white men the right to vote but no others is shameful.

The treatment of blacks last century in the South was shameful. The war in Vietnam and this one is shameful.

But you grouch about things so all students can fit in and lie about the age one school district will give free birth control to instead? If the kid knows she needs protection of some sort, at least someone is helping that citizen out!

Answer 11

Yeah, what happened to the good old days when we burned witches and slaughtered Indians and owned slaves and didn't let women vote? Ah, those traditional American moral standards...