Kindergarten Criminals
On Monday June 25th, the Belknap County Convention held a meeting in Laconia to discuss hiring a consultant to get help in designing a jail that would actually try to help inmates. Two freshmen state representatives were in attendance.

Freshman State Rep Harry Accornero seemed to ask good questions like: “Will this new facility change anything?” He was told about proposal for court diversion and drug / alcohol counseling. Accornero spoke about a reasonable idea that less arrests would be made if police had some counseling training.

Then came Freshmen Representative Bob Kingsbury talking about a “theory” he had been working on since 1996. He had analyzed the local crime for Laconia and other smaller, surrounding towns. An idea popped into his melon that a large town like Laconia has a much higher crime rate and they teach kindergarten. Whereas the surrounding towns do not teach kindergarten and have a much lower crime rate. He went on to say “We’re taking children away from their mothers too soon.”

Freshman Kingsbury believes this so vehemently that before he was even elected, he wrote all of the NH state representatives. While NH was discussing the idea of becoming the 49th state in the union to offer public kindergarten, Kingsbury mailed a packet to them all outlining his detailed research.

Even though Freshmen Rep Kingsbury called his idea a “theory” – which implies thorough proving of many hypotheses – he does not seem to have all of the kinks worked out yet. He suggested that kindergarten might not be the singular cause of crime. He also thinks the decline of gun ownership and that boxing is no longer taught in school as possible links to this criminal epidemic in Laconia.

No mention of a correlation between room temperature milk being served in day care and Sunday school having any link to smoking crack or teen pregnancy later in life. Stay tuned for developments.

That’s really all I got. New Hampshire, you elected the teaparty candidate. You get what you deserve. A moron. Please don’t let his crazy spill out of your state.

 

A Glimmer of Hope
Alan Chambers is married to a woman and has children. He is the president of Exodus International and very attracted to men. As the president of the Christian ministry that is best known for advocating and using ex-gay therapy AKA reparative therapy AKA conversion therapy, Alan has had a change of heart. He has spent months cleaning the ministries web site of books that have anything to do with conversion therapy. Even better, he is speaking at their conference in Minneapolis where 600 Exodus ministers and followers are attending. Alan will be going over the guidelines to formally remove this “therapy” which has had horrible effects on many gay people.

In a recent statement, Alan said:

I do not believe that cure is a word that is applicable to really any struggle, homosexuality included. For someone to put out a shingle and say, ‘I can cure homosexuality’ – that to me is as bizarre as someone saying they can cure any other common temptation or struggle that anyone faces on Planet Earth.

Of course this is great news to see such a public reversal, but I cannot guess how many people have been hurt by their programs world wide. Alan said that most of his ministers are following the new rules, but there might be a few holdouts in their over 360 churches. The reversal in no way affects their political policy on banning same sex marriage though. Get that out of your head.

Alan wants Exodus to focus on helping Christians reconcile their religious beliefs with their sexual feelings which are an affront to their bible. That reconciliation might be celibacy or marrying a person of the opposite sex (and being miserable for the rest of their lives).

All this coming from a man who is open about his sexual urges for the love of men. It’s painful to see a man hate himself so much that he endorsed a hurtful program as conversion therapy. And, all the while living a lie with a woman who knows her husband is gay but stays anyway. But seriously – who really wants to be celibate?

 

God Loves an Idiot

2012 STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM
PRINCIPALS
We, the 2012 Republican Party of Texas, believe in this platform and expect our elected leaders to uphold these truths through acknowledgement and action. We believe in:
1. Strict adherence to the original intent of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. and Texas Constitutions.
2. The sanctity of human life, created in the image of God, which should be protected from fertilization to natural death.
3. Preserving American and Texas Sovereignty and Freedom.
4. Limiting government power to those items enumerated in the U.S. and Texas Constitutions.
5. Personal Accountability and Responsibility.
6. Self-sufficient families, founded on the traditional marriage of a natural man and a natural woman.
7. Having an educated population, with parents having the freedom of choice for the education of their children.
8. Americans having the right to be safe in their homes, on their streets, and in their communities, and the unalienable right to defend themselves.
9. A free enterprise society unencumbered by government interference or subsidies.
10. Honoring all of those that serve and protect our freedom.
11. “The laws of nature and nature’s God” as our Founding Fathers believed.

Posting this so that a friend of mine (AND #1 fan of Atheist Nomads!) can knock some sense into her relatives back home… 😉

 

~Wesley

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