More California Liberal Public School Bullsh....

As I think about the Thanksgiving holiday, and all the blessings in my life that I am thankful for (and SO don't deserve), I realize how fortunate I am to be a native Southerner. I am so proud to call Georgia my home. I believe I could make do just about anywhere, but I'd never be as happy as I am at home in Dixie.

Perhaps the place I would be most unhappy, the most heart-sick, the saddest of all, would be the San Francisco Bay area of California. Honestly, I do not believe I could handle the ultra-liberal, anti-religious, morally bankrupt mentality of so many of the people in that area. Here's an example, and it's an example that has me seething with anger as I type this.

A fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek School in Cupertino, California, has been banned from using the Declaration of Independence in his classroom because it references God. There's more. Also banned from the lesson plans are: George Washington's journal, John Adams' diary, Samuel Adams' "The Rights of the Colonists" and William Penn's "The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania."

The teacher has filed a lawsuit (read it here) in U.S. District Court. Don't expect a judgement in the teacher's favor anytime soon. This is the same part of California in which an appeals court declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional because it has a reference to God. The knothead principal of the school, Patricia Vidmar, should be releived of her duties for such actions.

The Declaration of Independence is one of the most significant documents in this nation's history, perhaps second only to the Constitution. (If you haven't read the Declaration lately, or ever, please give yourself a refresher here.) The Declaration spells out the reasons the colonists were declaring independence from the government of Great Britain. It presents their theory of good government and individual rights. It lists grievances against King George III, and finally it asserts the sovereignty of the United States of America.

What does Patricia Vidmar find so objectionable in the Declaration? Apparently, lines like this (emphasis added by me)...

"WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation...

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies... And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

How did it come to the point where liberals hate the idea of religion so much that they will prohibit the study of such a great document?

A scary question: What's next?