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THE NATURE OF GOD'S LAW

"Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth."

(Psalm 119:142)

QUOTATIONS FOR THE DAY

"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare, but freedom from care and worry."

(James Truslow Adams)

"So free we seem, so fettered fast we are."

(Robert Browning)

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

(Edmund Burke)

"No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."

(Patrick Henry)

WESTBROOK SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES
NEW SEX ED CURRICULUM OVER PARENTS OBJECTIONS

AS BOARD MEMBERS STORM OUT ANGRILY
WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THE TRUTH

Not long into Wednesday's meeting of the Westbrook School Board, parents who had gone to oppose the proposed changes to the sex education curriculum, were dumbfounded to see one of the committee members return from a recess, prop his feet up on the council table and ask one of the members of the League, "Does it [obscenity deleted] you to be on the wrong side of every issue?"

The use of an obscenity to brow-beat a concerned citizen into silence was only one of many gaffs committed by a school board which showed itself to be breathtakingly out of touch with the public, and intent on railroading a politically-correct agenda over the many objections of Westbrook parents. The behavior of the committee was so crass, unfair, and unreasonable, that at one point a reporter from a local television station walked to the podium and demanded an apology. The reporter claimed that during a particularly heated part of the meeting, one school board member turned to the reporter and angrily complained about media coverage of board meetings.

Twice the board members called a recess, and stormed out angrily, as concerned members of the public stood at the podium and calmly and coolly read prepared statements which revealed the truth about the proposed curriculum changes. The purported reason for the recesses, was that two of the people who spoke, George Rodrigues and the League's own Mike Hein, exceeded the time limit of three minutes.

Thanks to George Rodrigues, a Westbrook parent who led the opposition to the proposed changes, it became clear that the board based its decision on statistics that are indisputably false. Since Rodrigues holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and is trained in the use of statistics, there was no avoiding the only other possible conclusion, that the proposed curriculum changes were politically motivated. Proof of this came when outraged Westbrook parents learned a mere two weeks ago that Westbrook kindergarteners will be taught that same-sex marriages are normal and desirable as part of the proposed curriculum changes which were "coincidentally" introduced by a former lesbian activist.

Board members repeatedly interrupted speakers to remind them that criticisms of the former lesbian activist, Sandy Hale, were inappropriate. The questions about Sandy Hale's role in the changes to the curriculum -- indeed, the most important questions that can be asked -- are being reported in the media as personal criticisms. No mention is made of the fact that Hale was a leading Lesbian activist before coming to Maine.

Some who attended the meeting could not help feeling sorry for the members of the board, each of whom glibly gave lip service to the PC agenda, but appeared genuinely frightened of straying from the carefully-prepared script. It was truly a pathetic sight, a warning to all about the enormous power political correctness wields in our society.

The only possible explanation for the quick unanimous vote of six-to-one in favor of the proposed curriculum changes -- without a single word of criticism or opposition -- was that board members were simply afraid to vote their conscience and oppose the proposed changes.

The hold that political correctness has on our society is illustrated by a sign tacked to the bottom of a Civil Rights Team poster hanging by the entrance to Westbrook High. The poster is the first thing students see when entering the school in the morning. The sign reads as follows:

"IF YOU DEFACE ANY OF THE POSTERS, INFORMATION SHEETS OR DECORATIONS, YOU ARE COMMITTING A HATE CRIME, AND ALSO DAMAGING PROPERTY THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU."

Clearly, not everyone at Westbrook High likes liberal indoctrination; and the school needs to back up its program of pro-homosexual brainwashing with the threat of criminal sanctions. Otherwise, the best students at Westbrook High -- those who still know the meaning of freedom -- will quickly express their dislike of being told what, and how to think. Anyone familiar with life in totalitarian societies easily recognizes this for what it is; a not-so-subtle reminder to remain quiet, in your own self-interest.

Given this climate of intimidation, it is not surprising that even the members of the Westbrook school board no longer feel free to speak their minds freely. It is an ominous sign for the future of America.

THE STATEMENT WHICH CAUSED THE MEMBERS OF THE WESTBROOK SCHOOL BOARD TO STORM OUT

The following is a statement read by Mike Hein of the Christian Civic League at Wednesday's meeting of the Westbrook School Board.

Members of the Committee:

Many of the parents of this community view tonight as a moment of profound crisis. The question before you is will you teach the young the principles of chastity and moral purity -- as required by Maine Law -- or will you adopt a course of instruction which seeks to corrupt them body and soul, all the while hypocritically maintaining that the course of instruction you propose is in the best interests of the children?

You are eager to give the impression that your decision is based on long months of study and consultation with the community, when in fact the proposed changes were given to you by groups from far away, and your acceptance of these changes was from the outset a foregone conclusion. You wish also to give the impression that this course of instruction is of your own free choosing, although you are merely the pawns of forces which remain out of sight and unknown to the community; and you do their bidding because you fear the consequences of resisting their hidden agenda. You are afraid to do the right thing, because, if you did so, you would lose the benefits you receive from the powers that be. Such are the actions of men in every society in which control of one's own destiny passes from the hands of a free people into the hands of their masters.

Our society has changed greatly from what it once was, but I know that many of you still retain a Christian conscience. In your heart of hearts you know that the action you will take here tonight is wrong. You are fully aware that you are giving your approval to a course of instruction which has as its ulterior purpose the corruption of our youth, and the destruction of our nation.

Through its connection to SIECUS and Planned Parenthood, this curriculum is the product of a malevolent philosophy which seeks, in part, to turn young girls and boys into consumers of contraception and abortion provided by Planned Parenthood, without parental permission. No less a man than John Paul II has called this evil the "Culture of Death." My friends, had you undertaken to do forty years ago what you are doing tonight, you would have been convicted in a court of law and sentenced to jail, and rightly so.

An earlier age which was still possessed of common sense would have clearly understood what it means to have a homosexual or lesbian write the criteria regarding sexual health. Nor would it have allowed a follower of Wilhelm Reich to remain a teacher at any school. To accept both these things as not merely normal and acceptable, but rather as praiseworthy, is indisputable proof that the administration of this school is morally corrupt, and profoundly so.

You are entrusted with the care of our children; but a school which countenances moral and sexual anarchy in the name of freedom and tolerance is to be censured by all decent people. Furthermore, it is beyond repair. For that reason, the Christian Civic League of Maine is calling on all parents of Westbrook, without exception, to remove their children from the Westbrook schools.