Parents: You’re Fired!
by Marc H. RudovMy local newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, today editorialized (CLICK HERE to see editorial) that, by defeating Proposition 85, the voters can allow the State of California to eclipse and usurp parental rights with governmental power and agencies.
Writes the Mercury News editor: If Californians want to reduce the number of girls who have abortions, then they should lend even stronger support to the public and private agencies working so hard to further reduce the number of teen pregnancies.
What about parents? This is pure socialism, even communism. In other words, parents are irrelevant. Appalled? Newspapers all over California support this left-wing view. Worse, a lot of liberal parents I know agree with this crap.
Proposition 85, up for vote on November 7, 2006, would preserve the inalienable right of parents to be notified when their minor daughters seek abortions. But, the far-left doesn’t like parents to be in charge. They want to defeat Proposition 85. Why? As I wrote in “Playing Abortion Chess,” abortion is the #1 issue of feminists. It keeps them in power. They don’t care about pregnant teenagers or their parents. They care about abortion.
If parents don’t maintain the right of notification — if they stupidly give it away — are they parents? No. They are liberal lemmings. The aim of socialism is to transfer power from individuals to the state. This is what’s happening in California. The “state” is taking over, and the people are allowing it to happen.
The people get only the government they deserve. The people get only the rights they fight for. What people become is a function of what they tolerate. Today’s liberal voters fight for nothing and tolerate everything, in the process marginalizing themselves and the rest of us.
When I give this more thought, the Proposition 85 fight exemplifies an underlying problem: many parents don’t want to be parents. Look around. How many times do you hear parents saying “no” to their whining brats? Rarely. They actually wish for the state to take over their jobs. Because an increasing number of homes are run by mothers, this attitude is a sign that women are the culprits. Pathetic.
If parents increasingly allow — no, ask — the government to fire them and subsume their roles, they will have nobody to blame but themselves. Imagine a day when the state permits “parents” to visit their offspring at official child centers. There will be a sign on the wall that reads: “Pay the child support at window #2. Move to the left. You have 25 minutes to view your child through the glass.”
Perhaps the Mercury News should invite Mikhail Gorbachev to write the op-ed piece. Time for a wake-up call from someone who knows.
About the Author
Marc H. Rudov is an investment banker and business consultant residing in Silicon Valley, CA. He is the author of 28 articles and the book, The Man’s No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet EarthTM (ISBN 0974501719).
Rudov’s book, articles, blog, and podcasts are available at http://www.TheNoNonsenseMan.com/.
Copyright 2006 by Marc H. Rudov. All rights reserved.
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September 21st, 2006 at 10:21 pm
As America was built, the most powerful social unit was the family.
In terms of economics, security, child-rearing, and other critical decisions upon which our individual health, welfare, and well-being were dependent, the family was the most efficient and the most effective means of pursuing those ends.
My how things have changed in THAT respect.
As you know, the family structure has been weakened, undermined, the most vulnerable (to isolation, attack, and neutralization) members: men, have been driven out of the family or their authority within the family greatly undermined.
And while some single mothers make acceptable, even good parents, MANY more are doing half-assed jobs at best of raising this nation’s next generations.
“Pathetic” was a pretty apt term for their overall contribution to American society, Marc.
And the government seems ever-ready to intrude deeper into those weakened, fatherless families, like parasitic growth that grows fat on its weakened host.
Marc, you made the statement “many parents don’t want to be parents”.
I would go so far as to state that many more adults in this nation are interested in reproducing (out of egotism, boredom, biological imperative, etc.) than are interested in being actual bona fide parents, with all THAT entails.
And the government seems all too willing to try to fill that role.
Single mothers breed intrusive, invasive government entities, not simply poorly-raised children.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Marc-
California is not really a part of America. Sure, they are one of fifty states, residents pay federal taxes, etc. But that state resembles much more a state of the former Soviet Union than of an American state. I used to live there, and the vast majority of people in California are very very liberal. The state has been at war with men and families for decades, so it comes as no surprise that they wish to usurp parental authority. A while ago, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center (San Jose, CA) tried to push through a law (SB 1437-which the state legislature largely passed but the Governor ultimately vetoed)requiring the teaching of gay, lesbian, transgender history to kids. It was sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, a lesbian and a member of the California Legislative Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Caucus.
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=23926
“If passed, it would have had grave implications for children and families — not just in California, but across the country — by forcing all public-school teachers to present a one-sided message about homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender issues to students as young as 5,” Minnery said in a statement.
Other bills are pending that have been passed by the Assembly and State Senate awaiting the Governor’s decision.
Here’s what happens when activist homosexual groups open the door to the public school system in a state with same-sex marriage:
Lexington, Mass., father of 6-year-old arrested, spends night in jail over objections to homosexual curriculum in son’s kindergarten class.
“Because of the same-sex marriage law people are treating this as a mandate to teach the youngest of children.”
– David Parker, parent of 6-year-old, arrested Apr. 27, 2005
“What you are about to read and see below is shocking and frightening, something that no one would have believed possible in America. But now in Massachusetts, propelled by the same-sex “marriage” ruling, this could become commonplace. Each month this reign of madness becomes more aggressive.”
to read more go to:
http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/parker/main.htm
Also:
“School Committee, Superintendent, teachers, Town of Lexington claim that presenting homosexuality to children against parents’ wishes is NOT illegal and does NOT interfere with freedom of religion!”
“Claims that because of gay ‘marriage’ in Massachusetts, state has legitimate interest in presenting homosexuality to children.”
to read more go to:
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/federal_lawsuit/motion_to_dismiss.html
Also:
“Gay marriage book read in 2nd grade at the same school:
“Homosexual Book “King and King” read to second graders-parents told by school they could not “opt out” their son.”
to read more go to:
http://www.massresistance.org/
Also:
Bills H1641 (and S102) would require broad range of K-12 sexuality / homosexuality teaching in Massachusetts public schools!
TUES., JAN. 31: Massive statewide turnout by citizens for Tuesday’s public hearing at the State House on Bill H1641! Planned Parenthood also there in force. Testimony finally ends at 9:00 pm!
to read more go to:
http://www.massresistance.org/
Also:
“After one year of gay “marriage” in Mass:
Hard-core pornographic homosexual “how-to” booklet given to hundreds of kids at Brookline High School April 30!”
“Titled “The Little Black Book – Queer in the 21st century”, contains deadly misinformation on health.”
Written by Boston-based “AIDS Action Committee” with help from Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston Public Health Commission. Funded also by major corporations, universities, even charities.
Event was run by group that organizes “Gay-Straight Alliances” and “Day of Silence” in schools around the country!
Some of the topics covered within this taxpayer funded book:
“Fuckin”
“Suckin”
“Spit or Swallow?”
“Rimming”
“Watersports”
“Fisting”
“Toys”
“Mutual Jerk Off”
(I am NOT making this stuff up!)
There is a list of gay clubs in the Boston area that are advertised. These are clubs that by law, are not to allow minors to enter.
Here is the advertisement of one such club:
PARADISE. 18 Mass Ave. Cambridge: Strippers dancing on the pool tables and bonking their heads on the overhead lights, porn on the television, old & young. Something for everyone.
This book was distributed to minor students, some as young as 14 y/o.
to read more go to:
http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/glsen_043005/black_book/black_book_inside.htm
The gays, lesbians, and abortionists are after your kids and YOUR government has put a gun to your head forcing you to accept this.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:50 am
Denis,
Glad I moved from Massachusetts. It’s difficult to determine which state is more liberal — and both have Republican governors!
You may recall the article I wrote previously about the breakdown in our legal system. It is entitled “Juris Contemptus: The UnAmerican Scourge.” http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/04/20/juris-contemptus-the-un-american-scourge/
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:50 am
I consider both states totalitarian-not liberal. California is forcing the gay and feminist agenda, as well as the illegal alien agenda down the throats of the people. Massachusetts has an insane and fanatical obsession with the feminist and gay agendas.
Same-sex marriage was illegally forced on the citizenry in MA. Margaret Marshall heads the SJC and gave speeches to gay and lesbian groups prior to the same-sex decision guaranteeing that MA would have same-sex marriage. There is no such right in the MA State Constitution (written by the great John Adams). A bill is in the legislature that will get the ball rolling to reverse this decision and to impeach Margaret Marshall and the four other justices that decided in favor of same-sex marriage. It is required by law that the legislature bring this bill to the floor. If it was brought to the floor it would pass. It would need to be brought to the floor again in 2008 and if it passed again, then same-sex marriage would end in MA and these four justices would be out. The leadership in the state legislature is stalling to bring the bill to the floor. They are beholden to the gay/lesbian lobbies. 85% of MA citzens do not want same-sex marriage. They want these justices out. We are hoping Romney will force the issue by suing the state in Federal courts to make them bring the bill to the floor.
Here is an interesting article:
Thursday September 21, 2006
Homosexual “Marriage†Not Legal in Massachusetts, Lawyers’ Coalition Says
By Gudrun Schultz
BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The state of Massachusetts’ decision to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples, under the direction of Governor Mitt Romney, went directly against the state constitution and was in fact illegal, a Boston-based coalition of lawyers has charged.
“No argument for the legality of homosexual marriage in Massachusetts can survive an examination either of the state constitution or of the Supreme Judicial Court’s own case law,†said lawyers in a statement to the head of the Washington D.C.-based Family Research Council, Mr. Tony Perkins.
The state Supreme Court ruling in Goodridge vs. the department of Public Health, delivered on November 18th, 2003, declared that banning gay “marriage†was unconstitutional; that ruling, however, did not change the law.
“The Massachusetts Constitution emphatically denies the judiciary the power to strike down laws or to suspend their enforcement or to assume any of the policy-making responsibilities of the elected branches,†the lawyers stated.
“[A]nyone asserting that the [Supreme Judicial Court] decision ‘legalized’ homosexual marriage in Massachusetts is fundamentally wrong about one of the clearest and most forceful parts of the state constitution.â€
In fact, the lawyers said, the Supreme Court ruling acknowledged the limitation of judicial power and left it to the legislature to strike down the original marriage statute which excluded homosexual marriage. “Only a constitutional amendment by the people would be allowed to change the constitutional meaning of the term marriage.â€
The legislature did not take that step. Nevertheless, Gov. Romney ordered the state to issue homosexual marriage licenses, an order that directly contravened the existing marriage statute.
“How did Mitt Romney get the authority to strike down a law that he had sworn to uphold and that the court said would remain in force until the Legislature repealed it?†the lawyers said. “Is Mitt Romney a one-man legislature? The Executive has no legal authority to enforce laws that do not exist.â€
The group pointed out that Gov. Romney’s Training Session for Town Clerks on implementing the SJC decision acknowledged that the law had not been changed, while at the same time calling for the implementation of the “new law†permitting homosexual marriage on May 17, 2004.
The lawyers called for an “immediate†change to the language used by pro-family groups opposing same-sex marriage.
“It must be repeated at every opportunity that homosexual marriage is not legal in Massachusetts and that under direct assault from all three branches of government, constitutional governance has broken down in this state and such behavior is spreading elsewhere.â€
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:53 pm
More excellent evidence from you, Denis.
Yet, I beg to differ with you about extreme liberalism vs. totalitarianism. I do not see any difference between them — they are one in the same. In fact, liberalism is impossible in this country without totalitarian domination by the feminists, gays, and “mainstream” media.
The US population is comprised of 60% traditionalists, 20% left-wing radicals, and 20% radical right-wingers and those too stupid to care. Given that most Americans are against both gay marriage and teenage abortion without parental notification, how can such liberal, undesired “rights” become a part of our society? Through totalitarianism.
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:00 pm
We are in agreement. It is liberal totalitarianism.