To those who find it so easy to attack Pope Linus for his honesty, let me say, some of us have to live in the real world. As a white, male, christian, conservative with a degree in social work and a graduate degree in counseling, let me say that those who stood up for the truth got cut off at the knees. Period! (That doesn’t mean I didn’t speak up for the truth when the opportunity presented itself) I went to several state universities because that was what my mother could afford. I majored in social work and counseling because that was what I was good at and I wanted to get a job and support myself. Not all of us had a choice about where to go to school, what courses to take, and whether or not we needed to graduate.
Let me also add that I know many people who homeschool their children and the children are the better for it. However, these same highly educated, well employed, middle-class parents have decided while they needed advanced degrees and good job training that their children do not. Wake up! I do not like the fact that liberals have taken our educational institutions and the media hostage better than anyone else, but if you are not educating your children in an effort to keep them away from liberal educational institutions, you are sentencing them to a life of poverty. (Yes, I know, millionaire so and so had no eduction and they did fine. So what?)
Not all males are good in math and science, not all males are going to start their own business. Like I said, some of us just wanted to support themselves. And before you accuse me of being anti-intellectual because of this approach, I ussually applied myself to the subject mattter at hand more than other students in my class.
20 years of working in a female-dominated profession and 10 years of marriage have taught me one thing for sure. And that is that regardless of how stridently women preach feminism to the exclusion of all else, a woman’s focus is on her home, family and children (is my house clean, are my kids o.k.) and a man’s focus is on his work and his profession. Nothing right or wrong about that, it is just the way we are wired. How many millions, billions of women are going to reach the end of their lives and say “I missed my child’s first words” or “I missed the chance to make a home for my family” and pursued a career instead. Sometimes circumstances dicate otherwise, however, I don’t believe you will ever hear a man honestly say, “I wish I had stayed home and raised my children”. Except maybe John Lennon, and as far as I’m concerned, his “Imagine” type of thinking has already done enough damage in this world.
This is not meant to disparage women in any way. My wife is the most intelligent, courageous, moral, hardworking person I know, she is simply wired differently from me.
Finally to the person who said that conservative thought has as much currency in the publication of textbooks and the disemmination of ideas as liberal thought, my question is “What are you smoking?” it must be really good stuff.
Thanks for the opportunity to express myself, and I hope I did not offend anyone, at least not too much.
