-----Original Message-----From: Lawlor, John -----Original
Message-----From: Beyer, Eric
Dear God: Why didn't you save the
school children at . . . a.. Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96 b..
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97 c.. Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97 d.. West
Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97 e.. Stamps, Arkansas 12/15/97 f..
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98 g.. Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98 h..
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98 i.. Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98 j..
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98 k.. Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99 l..
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99 m.. Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99 n..
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99 o.. Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99 p..
Santee, California 3/5/01 and q.. El Cajon, California
3/22/01?
Sincerely, Concerned Student
Dear Concerned
Student: I am not allowed in schools. Sincerely, God
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...
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 yourself," And
we said, OK...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. 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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