Posted by
OldRelayer on Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:25:26 PM
The school board elected by the good people of Portland Maine passed an
ordinance(I guess that is what it is) that allows middle school kids as
young as 11 to ask for and get contraception, even prescribe dangerous
digested pills, these can make a grown woman sick and without the
knowledge of their parents, wow. Now this is the dilemma, but I
think our free will and the constitution solves our dilemma.
Conservative radio was all over this one today, with indignation. But in this case they might be wrong.
Does that mean I think this is right to encourage 11 year olds to have
sex, of course not. But this is what we conservatives are
fighting for and you can’t have it both ways. The local
autonomous school board made a decision, the people of Portland can
protest or even put in a new school board that would rescind the
ordinance. Or if that doesn’t work people that are disenchanted can
move. If I lived there and had a child in school, I
would be outraged, I would demand a special session and have the school
committee come up with any good argument on why this is a good idea, to
which I would shot every argument down, but I would most likely loose
in Portland because it is just like that down there. So I would
put my house up for sale and move somewhere that the community shared
my values. Although I must ask where are the parents when
these kids are having sex. I had a daughter, she got off the bus
and we did things until it was time for her to do homework and I would
go back to work. We always made sure there was someone for her to
come home to, don’t tell me it can’t be done, I worked days and
Barbara worked nights. Even at a young age, I was so involved in
my daughters up bringing, we played, learned and gave her a bath and
she went to bed, a happy child. I would then stay up and wait for
Barbara and would be exhausted the next day and she would have to get
up and be a mother, this was preschool and for few years until I could
get myself in a position to work from home. Don’t
tell me about two working parents we did it.
I live in Maine, not Portland, couldn’t give me a house and $1,000,000
a year to live there, it is left wing. Not all Maine is, it is
recognized and someone coined the expression “Two Maines” , most of the
small towns where I live are very patriotic and very
conservative. Every small town has what they call the village,
town office, fire station and general store normally. Each of the
small town villages has as many flags flying as there are telephone
poles and sometimes more than that. You get the picture, where as
in Portland your lucky you get a smile and a hello.
I know this is going to cause a stir, but I think I can ride this one
out, your can’t fight for local control and then complain when
decisions are may locally that you don’t agree with.
Sorry about the multiple publishing, but preview doesn't work or it doesn't work for me locks up my browser.