Any culture, be it Confucian society in China, Islamic society in the Middle East and north Africa, Hindu society in India, or, Christian society in the west, will collapse at the fundamental family level when infused with massive easy divorce, rampant homosexuality, and wholesale abortion, obviously. In the United States, the Democrat party proudly champions these social causes and has worked hard to instill them in our culture, but, over the last four decades, it has required an enormous amount of money to fulfill its agenda. The lion's share of that money has come from teachers' unions in all fifty states. This money has served to tear the fabric of society and has destroyed families from coast to coast. Now, the people are being asked to pick up the pieces. While this generation of our youth requires hitherto unwarranted attention, the task would be made easier if teachers ceased funding that which gives rise to these children's nightmare. Perhaps the teachers could concentrate their efforts on strengthening marriage and the home and fund those causes instead.

Otis you are amazing! All you do is rant hate. You promised to leave the paper. Please leave ..

Bubba

On a side note, the Decatur Daily has fueled this terrible agenda at the local level, giving editorial support and favorable reportage to all three Democrat Party goals, easy divorce, rampant homosexuality, and wholesale abortion. How bizarre that those who funded the rending of society, the teachers' unions, turn to the organizations that advanced the agenda, like the Decatur Daily, to ask the public for help curing the problem.

Otis - What, exactly, is an easy divorce? Each State has different requirements for obtaining a divorce, many require the parties to attend counseling and others have long waiting periods between filing and final decree. Exceptions are allowed in situations involving domestic violence. I suppose you'd like it to be more difficult for someone who is being abused to get a divorce? What, exactly, is rampant homosexuality and how has the Democratic Party supported it? No one chooses to be homosexual. They may choose to live a homosexual lifestyle, but they do not choose the sexual orientation. If not discriminating is the same as supporting, the I suppose the Democratic and Independant Parties are gulity. Finally, what is wholesale abortion? Is it opposed to retail abortion? If supporting our right to privacy is the same as supporting wholesale abortion, I suppose the Democratic and Independant Parties, along with many other groups are guilty of this as well.

The root of the problem in our society isn't divorce, homosexuality or abortion, it is a lack of respect for self and others. There are plenty of divorced parents who raise happy, healthy children - some of whom are homosexual or have had abortions and still manage to become successful, contributing members of society. They are taught to have respect for themselves and to treat others with that same respect regardless of the life choices they may make. They believe that executing someone's spirit by standing in judgement damages their ability to become a contributing member of society and they know that focusing on the symptoms of a problem, rather than the problem itself is a cherished passtime for folks like you. If you never address the root of the problem, you'll always have something over which to whine and complain and blame others.

I left the courthouse in Decatur a few days ago and could not believe how many kids, children were outside the building where the troubled kids go on 2nd. ave. Wow!