2 Responses to “February 24, 2009”

1. Joshua Harris
   February 25th, 2009 @ 5:40 pm

   Abstinence is absolutely practical and do-able. My wife was a virgin until the day we married. I got saved at 20 yrs old, and was abstinent from that point on until marriage, and I was a heathen’s heathen before getting saved- if I could wait til marriage – anyone could.

   Concerning what should be taught in public schools: Why don’t we just ask the UN or the England’s parliament to settle the issue for us as to what we should teach in our public schools concerning abstinence or birth control? Your rational response would be, “because it’s none of their business!”, and I’d agree. Also, where the federal government is concerned it is none of their business; it is wrong as an issue of Jurisdiction to even decide on this issue one way or another from a federal level. It is a local issue, of local Jurisdiction, and it is a usurping of authority to allow the federal government to have anything to do with it; it is an Ahab like abdication of the right place and practice of authority- in essence it is rebellion.

   I am reminded of a time in American history when our schools had much higher educational standards, the cost was significantly less money, moral standards were the rule where now they are the exception, and parents had a much greater capacity to influence what went on in the local public schools; that was coincidentally the same time when the federal government did not have the controls on local public schools; that was before we abdicated the authority to the federal government in the first place.
   Read the 10th Amendment to the constitution and think about it in light of a federal department of education, and see what you think then.

2. Dr Michael Brown
   February 25th, 2009 @ 11:50 pm

   Thanks, Joshua!

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