Political Correctness, the Nanny City and "Religious Tolerance"....

I have said before that political correctness will be the death of the United States of America.  These days freedom of speech is only allowed if you utter only those things that have been approved by the government to say.  OK – it’s not that bad yet but how long will it be?  Let’s look at some examples…

In March of 2012, New York City, America’s largest nanny state, introduced a proposed list of words they want banned from standardized tests.  Not content with trying to ban large soft drinks, smoking in public places (outdoors), and doing away with salt in restaurants, Nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg regulate what words in the English language can be used in their schools’ tests for fear of hurting someone’s feelings or stirring up “negative emotional responses from students.”

Here is the complete list of words that could be banned:

Abuse, alcohol (beer and liquor), tobacco, or drugs, birthday, birthday celebration (because some kids might not get to have a birthday celebration), bodily functions (not sure what that would be doing on a test anyway), cancer and other diseases (because some kids might have loved ones who have a disease), catastrophes/disasters (tsunamis and hurricanes), celebrities (?), children dealing with serious issues (again - why would this be on a test?) cigarettes (and other smoking paraphernalia), computers in the home (acceptable in a school or library setting - because not every kid has a home computer), crime, death, divorce (there goes that math question about alimony payment calculation...), evolution, expensive gifts, vacations, and prizes, gambling involving money, Halloween, homelessness, homes with swimming pools (we all know some kid will be emotionally traumatized to hear that some people have pools in their backyards), hunting, junk food (and salt, no doubt), in-depth discussions of sports that require prior knowledge (can't be having in-depth discussions in school, can we?), loss of employment, nuclear weapons (like "How many nukes will it take to wipe Iran off the face of the Earth?  That kind of question?), occult topics (i.e. fortune-telling), parapsychology (so much for a career as a ghost hunter), politics, pornography (they really have to ban pornography questions from these school tests?  Really?), poverty, rap music, religion, religious holidays and festivals including but not limited to Christmas, Yom Kippur, and Ramadan (they don't know it yet but the Muslims will sue and win), rock-and-roll music, running away (?), sex, slavery, terrorism, television and video games, traumatic material (including material that may be particularly upsetting such as animal shelters), vermin (rats and roaches), violence, war and bloodshed, weapons (guns, knives, etc.), witchcraft, sorcery, etc.

Looking at some of these words makes me wonder who is writing the tests for the New York City school system and what kind of questions are they asking?  Seriously - they have to ban words like "bodily function, cancer, death and homelessness" from a test?  What would the question be?  "Mary's mom suffers from cancer and can't control her bodily functions.  If she dies in three months - how many more months will it be until Mary is homeless?"  

I don't mean to insult anyone who has cancer or is homeless but seriously - why would anyone use words like that on a test anyway?  And look closely at the rest of the words.  Is it really necessary to ban words like "junk food, homes with swimming pools, sex and weapons?"  I don't remember ever seeing any questions on a test in my entire lifetime that had things like that in them.  And now the mention of animal shelters is traumatic for school kids?  

New York is trying hard to raise a generation of pansies who will never survive in the real world unless that real world is the same milk toast nanny state they're in now.  Can you imagine a kid who has been sheltered from reality by the government going into the military?  The first time his drill instructor raised his voice he'd pee his pants and cry for Mayor Bloomberg!  Oh, wait...  the President is going to reduce the size of our military so that scenario will probably never happen.

In other news, in the push to make America completely secular with illegal aliens welcome but God no longer being allowed in the country - the way we mark years has been changed.  Previously, when one spoke of the early years of the planet they referred to the years B.C., Before Christ.  This was perfectly acceptable in the world for over 2000 years, except in countries that do not believe in Jesus Christ, such as Islamic countries.

When the B.C. calendar hit the  year 0 the new millenium was called A.D., or Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.  Again, perfectly acceptable for over 2000 years until the United States decided God is evil and evangelical Christians are "a threat to humanity" according to many secularists.

And speaking of secularists - the federal government has decided that Christians in the military are overzealous in their beliefs and need to be banned from proselytizing while on duty.  Somehow, unless something has changed since I was in the military, I don't think this is really a big problem so much as the government simply trying to get God out of the military completely.

In their quest to create "religious tolerance" in the military, the government has hired Mikey Weinstein, a devout and very vocal atheist, to help them draft their policies.

In an article published in the Huffington Post on April 16, 2013, (the day after the Boston Marathon bombing), Mr. Weinstein wrote "Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation's armed forces.

These days, when ANYone attempts to bravely stand up against virulent religious oppression, these monstrosities cry out alligator tears in overflowing torrents and scream that it is, in fact, THEY who are the dispossessed, bereft and oppressed. C'mon, really, you pitiable unconstitutional carpetbaggers? It would be like the utter folly of 1960's-era southern bigots howling like stuck pigs in protest that Rosa Parks' civil rights activism is "abusing" them by destroying and disenfranchising their rights to sit in the front seat of buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Please, I beseech you! Let us call these ignoble actions what they are: the senseless and cowardly squallings of human monsters.

Queasy with the bright and promising lights of the cultural realities of the present day, those evil, fundamentalist Christian creatures and their spiritual heirs have taken refuge behind flimsy, well-worn, gauze-like euphemistic facades such as "family values" and "religious liberty." These bandits coagulate their stenchful substances in organizations such as the American Family Association (AFA), the ultra-fundamentalist Family Research Council (FRC), and the Chaplains Alliance for Religious Liberty (CARL). The basis of their ruinous unity is the bane of human existence and progress: horrific hatred and blinding bigotry. However, when the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others correctly characterize them as "hate groups," they all too predictably raise a deafening hue and disingenuously bellow mournfully like the world class cowards they are."

Hate much, Mikey?  

Weinstein's hatred of Christians certainly makes him the right person to write policy on religious tolerance, don't you think?  Who better to educate people on tolerance than a man who spews his vile hatred so vocally?  His words obviously soothe the fears of Christians who feel they are being forced out of society.  After all - Mahmoud Ahmadihnijad, a Muslim man who also verbalizes his hate filled thoughts in a soothing and un-aggressive manner, particularly against Jews, is a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council.  It seems the Obama administration follows the logic of the U.N. when they pick people for committees working on rights and tolerance.  Think they'd put someone like Franklin Graham on a committee to teach about the rights and wrongs of abortion or gay marriage?  Using the same logic - they certainly should.

For a man who claims to be a Christian, Barack Obama and his administration have set religious freedom back in this country more than any leader in American history.  His assault on Christianity, while supporting the freedoms of Muslims across the nation and the world, really makes one wonder where his heart lies.  I have seen absolutely nothing that indicates to me he cares more for his own stated religious beliefs than those of his childhood.  And in this day of Islamic terrorism, the Muslim Brotherhood and worldwide jihad - that's a problem for me.