I've been called white but I'm really more of a peachy tan. I've been called beige, but it's such a dreary color I take offense to it. You could call me Scottish American, or French American, or Irish American, or British American. Color is an identifier. In the case of this article, the author is making the point that the the perps, who are members of one race, and the victim, who are member of another race, may be treated differently because their roles as oppressed and oppressor have been switched from their commonly thought of positions. The vast majority of us are not purebreds. We have inter married from the beginning of time. Race is not biological. We have traits from our ancestors including varying degrees of pigmentation.

Was this a hit piece or a support piece? I'm not sure. Yeah, we get it. Mitt's a Mormon, Mitt's weird. Yada Yada Yada.

the best way you know how. Instilling your own values instead of the day care providers values. Sacrificing some of your more selfish motives in order to show love to your child. But Lib's don't believe in sacrificing. What ever feels good....do it. Marriage hard....divorce. Life hard.....drugs. job hard......welfare. It's always the easy answer. Where is the growth in that? You can have it all, but usually not at the same time. If you want good, healthy children, raise them. If you don't have that opportunity, do the best you can with what you've got. We all have our personal crosses to bear. Some of us have problems, and some of us make problems.

Saying that you cease to be their mother because you're at work is a little brutal but it is mostly true. I am a single widowed mother of three. I was a stay at home mother before my husband died, by choice. If I had that choice to make, I would stay home with my children. I love my work and I love making money and having a life outside of the home, but my mind is almost always on what I cannot do for my children now that I am required to work for our survival. Proud Lib is from a proud liberal tradition that doesn't believe in good and bad; only opinion. It is best to be at home with your children. That doesn't mean you can't leave the house or learn or read or grow. That means that you make a decision to raise your own children in

But to a large number of the population, it will NEVER be acceptable. Just like I would never condone a neighbor stepping out on their spouse, or a friend stealing from their company. Teaching our children that it's an acceptable lifestyle is just a way to indoctrinate, But it won't work because I teach them it is not. The LGBT community is very loud and a lot of people back down from their attacks. That doesn't make us believe their message and it doesn't mean we'll accept their lifestyle.

The problem LGBT community has is the they want to show the contributions that LGBT people have make to society. But the men and women who do great things and happen to be sleeping with a member of the same sex aren't successful because they are doing so. Sleeping with a girl is not going to make me a winning politician or brilliant physician. It is irrelevant to the conversation. Being a Heterosexual doesn't give me any special powers either. I'm certainly not going to say "so and so is a great person, oh, and by the way, did you know she''s hetero?" It's also irrelevant. The only reason to include that in the conversation is to try to mainstream it and make it acceptable.

Mr. Chapman is correct. Sex offender registries do nothing to protect our children from sex offenders. A probation officer told me that many don't register and don't end up in jail because the registry created a lot more work for the same amount of manpower. This is "feel good" legislation that has been proven not effective. Yet people will defend it because it makes us feel like we are doing something to protect children. I can tell you from personal experience that the real sex offenders can look at a group of children and teens and know who will tell; who can be manipulated; who feels unloved. They can also tell which parents can be manipulated; feel unloved and who will deny their instincts.

Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer tried to blame their atrocious acts on pornography. People like to have a convenient excuse on which to excuse evil behavior. We don't like the thought that any person is capable of doing something evil. A normal person may have a bad thought one day. He banishes it from his brain and goes on to be the good person he is. On the flip side, he likes the thought and rolls it over in his mind. Every day he pulls it out of his brain and thinks it over some more. The thought gets bigger and bigger and more elaborate and down the road a few years, he turns into Ted Bundy. From my experience, criminals are entitled people with poor impulse control.

Although I disagree with your indisputable fact, I do agree that the act is the only thing that matters. No matter what laws we pass, we can't legislate what people think and feel and may do. Government can only punish for a crime. It is notoriously bad at preventing crimes. That's why hate crime legislation and the equal rights amendment and affirmative action, etc, will never erase crime.

We were told that our HOA wasn't active and hadn't been for a long time. We were stupid enough to believe it. Every year they send me a letter in the spring to say I am not in compliance but they don't say why. One of my neighbors was actually out with a measuring tape to see how long my grass was. They are way out of control, but it's almost impossible to dissolve them unless you get the majority of your neighbors to sign. I would love to see them voted unconstitutional. I can dream.