WE HAVE ALREADY REDEFINED MARRIAGE!

Rev. Donald Sensing, a Methodist minister from Tennessee, argues that acceptance of same-sex marriage “will not cause the degeneration of the institution of marriage; it is the result of it.” Understand that Rev. Sensing is not happy with the situation as he sees it. “I believe that this state of affairs is contrary to the will of God,” he writes. But he argues persuasively that the public understanding of marriage was doomed when society accepted the Pill, and thereby severed the link between marriage and procreation. Marriage, he observes, had traditionally been recognized and protected by society as the only institution in which sexual intercourse—and, therefore, child-bearing—was sanctioned. ”Society's stake in marriage as an institution is nothing less than the perpetuation of the society itself, a matter of much greater than merely private concern,” Rev. Sensing writes. But once contraception became the norm, and procreation was deemed incidental, the fundamental reason for legal protection of marriage was obscured. Today, marriage is generally understood as a social and legal contract between two people: nothing more. (In fact marriage is the only legal contract that society does not enforce; either partner can break the bond with impunity.) “But what weddings do not do any longer,” Rev. Sensing remarks, “is give to a man and a woman society’s permission to have sex and procreate.” In today’s America, an increasingly large proportion of young people believe that they have permission to have sex whenever they want, with whomever they want. As for procreation, that too is taking place, more and more frequently, outside the bounds of wedlock. But public attitudes could change, as they have changed in the past 50 years, and a change in attitudes could lead to another change in laws. So consider Rev. Sensing’s insight from a different perspective. Imagine that, sometime in the future, our society decides that some permission should be required before couples have sex and procreate. Reflect on that possibility for just a moment, and you realize that, while our society is very unlikely to impose new restrictions on sex, it isn’t nearly so far-fetched to imagine restrictions on the right to have children. A government that is arrogant enough to re-define marriage is surely arrogant enough to require licensing for child-bearing. And if the marital contract means nothing more than what the government says it means, then marriage does not ensure the right to have children. Do you want to live in a society in which the government decides who should have children, and when, and how many? If not, you should worry about the future of marriage law. As Rev. Sensing demonstrates, you should worry not only about what the Supreme Court may do, but about what has already been done. Phil Lawler - Catholicculture.orgwe

Homeschooling: The Pro-Family Counterrevolution

The Carnegie Corp., Common Core, and Communist World Govt.

PARENTS AND TAXPAYERS BEWARE! Carnegie's Done Deal: 1934-2015 US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions: Newsroom - Press Releases Parents and taxpayers beware! You don't have to waste your precious time reading all the educationese text in this Reauthorization bill, or any of it's amendments! Simply look at the Baker's Dozen who strongly support Senators Patty Murray and Tsar Lamar's Reauthorization of ESEA. These individuals and groups have no constitutional right to be using our tax money to restructure the USA from a Constitutional Republic to a Democratic Socialist / Communist nation in a World Government (NWO) being implemented as ABCs of Dumb Down writes. These individuals and groups are carrying out Carnegie Corporation's agenda, spelled out in its 1934 book Conclusions and Recommendations of the Commission on the Social Studies, which called for using the schools to change America's capitalist economic system and, in some cases, to take our land. Citation: AmericanDeception.com. Type "Conclusions" into search engine. (See esp. pages 16 and 17) This list includes communist change agent groups, including useful idiots, that have been responsible for the deliberate dumbing down and the deliberate destruction of your children's and their teachers' values, through mental health brainwashing programs, since passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D., in The Power Elite Exposed, page 304, explains the history of this communist transformation of the world's autonomous nations into first, regions (UN Agenda 21 using the unelected council form of government being implemented nationwide, and in education through charter schools ). This transformation will ultimately lead to a world union of socialist nations. (World Government). "Most of the leaders of the nations which are members of the European Union [ Program for International Student Assessment PISA ,being forced on the US, ed ] are already members of Socialist International, and if other nations around the world can be moved toward socialism and regional economic arrangemenets, then these regional groupings can be more easily merged into a world socialistic government. "At this point, one might be wondering how the power elite could get Communist dictators to go along with this scenario. The explanation is that this scenario is quite similar to the three-stage plan outlined by Stalin at the 1936 Communist International. At that meeting, the official program proclaimed: 'Dictatorship can be established only by a victory of socialism in different countries or groups of countries,' after which there would be federal unions (UN Agenda 21 regional government which is communism, ed) of the various groupings of these socialist countries, and the third stage would be an amalgamation of these regional federal unions into a world union of socialist nations." Strong Support for Bipartisan Legislative Agreement to “Fix No Child Left Behind” Education community, national and state leaders praise ? Every Child Achieves Act? Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Margaret Atkinson / Jim Jeffries (Alexander): 202-224-0387 WASHINGTON, D.C., April 21 – The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015, introduced earlier this month by Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to fix “No Child Left Behind,” last week passed the committee unanimously and is receiving broad support from governors, chief state school officers, teachers, school board members, and school superintendents. According to Sen. Alexander, “The consensus the committee reached is this: Continue the law’s important measurements of academic progress of students but restore to states, school districts, classroom teachers and parents the responsibility for deciding what to do about improving student achievement. This change should produce fewer tests and more appropriate ways to measure student achievement. It is the most effective path to advance higher state standards, better teaching, and real accountability.” What others are saying about the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015: THE BAKER'S DOZEN National Governors Association: “The nation’s governors commend the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for working in a bipartisan way to restore balance to the state-federal relationship. Governors have long called for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Every Child Achieves Act reinforces the principle that accountability and responsibility for K-12 education rests with the states. It also supports governors’ strategies to improve low-performing schools and includes flexibility for governors to empower teachers and school leaders to prepare all students for success. We look forward to working with the Senate to ensure gubernatorial leadership is reflected in the bill and reauthorization is completed this year.” National School Boards Association: “Today marks a great victory for local and community leadership in public education. Though there is much more work to be done, today’s powerful vote demonstrates that we are one step closer to rewriting the broken No Child Left Behind Act and modernizing ESEA.” National Conference of State Legislatures: “The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) applauds your bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The Every Child Achieves Act is a strong, state-centered bill and an important step forward in fixing the current law. We appreciate that the legislation includes many provisions recommended in the reauthorization plan that NCSL released in partnership with the National Governors Association. Under your legislation, states would receive greater flexibility in areas such as accountability systems and school improvement strategies. It also ensures that states will determine academic standards and can use innovative assessments to measure student achievement.” National Association of State Boards of Education: “NASBE applauds Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray for putting forth a bipartisan bill that recognizes the essential role states play in setting education policy, while continuing the federal commitment to equity and accountability. The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 is an important step forward in providing states and districts with the authority and certainty they need to place the nation’s schools on a path to higher performance and continual improvement.” Council of Chief State School Officers: “Chairman Alexander and Senator Murray have created an excellent bipartisan bill that gives the Senate a strong starting point for the long overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 is aligned with the key priorities that State Chiefs outlined in January, and will provide our states with the long-term stable federal policy they need to continue making progress for all students.” School Superintendents Association: “This bill restores a more proper balance between federal, state and local government in public education. ECAA takes the pendulum of federal overreach and prescription rampant in current law and places it more squarely in the area of state and local expertise and autonomy. The bill recognizes the importance of empowering state and local leaders to use their professional knowledge and proximal location to make the decisions necessary to successfully adhere to their educational missions. It corrects flawed policy related to standards, accountability and assessments to ensure that all students are better positioned to learn and achieve.” Teach For America: “Teach For America (TFA) was glad to see a bipartisan Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization bill released today that recognizes the urgency in updating and strengthening our education laws, from early learning through high school graduation. All students, regardless of race, national origin, or income, deserve the opportunity to succeed, and all teachers deserve the resources and the professional development to help them do so. This bill is a start in the right direction to move progress forward.” American Federation of Teachers: “At the beginning of this reauthorization process, we called on policymakers to reclaim the original purpose of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — to help children, particularly those at risk — and to end the testing fixation. Today, in a bipartisan manner, Sens. Alexander and Murray took an important first step by showing that, even in this current climate, one can find common ground by listening to teachers, parents and other important voices in education.” – Randi Weingarten, president Partnership for 21st Century Learning: “Today P21, the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, the leading organization uniting business, education, and government leaders to advance meaningful teaching learning for all students, expressed support for the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) sponsored by Senators Alexander and Murray as a balanced, bipartisan approach to updating the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). P21 strongly supports the bill's commitment to equity, innovation, and emphasis on equipping students with the knowledge and skills required for postsecondary success.” National Alliance for Public Charter Schools: “We are pleased that Chairman Lamar Alexander and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) have achieved a bipartisan agreement to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act…We applaud the committee for strengthening this program that has been critical to the growth of charter schools nationwide.” Third Way: “This thoughtful compromise represents a huge step forward in achieving meaningful reform of the parts of NCLB that weren’t working, while preserving those parts that were spurring growth in student achievement. If every Member of Congress approaches this upcoming debate with the same spirit that has generated this compromise, there’s no doubt we will see a new law passed this year — one that will continue to build on the progress we’ve made since No Child Left Behind and set our students up for success in an increasingly competitive global economy.” Charlotte Iserbyt April 24, 2015