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How did this get started....
Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare
complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools.
And we said, OK...
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Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school,
the Bible that says "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not
steal, and love your neighbors as yourself,"
And we said, OK...
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Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when
they misbehave because their little personalities would be
warped and we might damage their self-esteem.
And we said, an expert should know what he's talking about so
we won't spank them anymore...
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Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline
our children when they misbehave. And the school administrators
said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when
they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we
surely don't want to be sued.
And we accepted their reasoning...
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Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if
they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents.
And we said, that's a grand idea...
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Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys
and they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the
condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and
we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school.
And we said, that's another great idea...
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Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter
what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.
And we said, it doesn't matter what anybody, including the
President, does in private as long as we have jobs and the
economy is good...
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And someone else took that appreciation a step further and
published pictures of nude children and then stepped further
still by making them available on the Internet.
And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech...
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And the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and
movies that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex...
And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder,
suicide, and satanic themes...
And we said, it's just entertainment and it has no adverse
effect and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead...
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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience,
why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother
them to kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.
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Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and
hard enough, we
could figure it out. I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...
"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW," '
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