Cohabitation Is A Threat To Justice

The sources I used for the below post is the commentary by David N. Bass titled "Cohabitation: America's botched social experiment" and the media release titled ACLU and "Former 911 Dispatcher File Lawsuit Challenging North Carolina Anti-Cohabitation Law" from ACLU.org

There is a very important case before the Supreme Court of North Carolina that puts the ACLU against the People of North Carolina. The American Civil Liberties Union is once more supporting their anarchistic ideal of liberty against the attempt of the people to protect themselves from the result of immoral behavior. The case is about whether or not cohabitation should be illegal.

A legal battle taking place in North Carolina illustrates this growing quagmire that is mixing culture, religion, and morals into a ubiquitous soup. According to the Associated Press, a North Carolina Superior Court judge in early February approved the continuation of a lawsuit challenging state General Statute § 14-184, which forbids unmarried couples from living together on penalty of a misdemeanor charge. Spearheaded by the ACLU of North Carolina, the suit was filed on behalf of a former police dispatcher, who left her position after being told by her supervisor to stop cohabiting, marry her live-in boyfriend, or find another job. The legal challenge seeks to have the cohabitation statute declared unconstitutional.

Cohabitation is proven to be a danger to our society. Despite the known danger to our society the ACLU shows a profound hatred for the institute of heterosexual marriage. They support homosexual marriage.

"The Supreme Court has made it clear that the government has no business regulating relationships between two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home," said Jennifer Rudinger, Executive Director of the ACLU of North Carolina. "North Carolina's cohabitation law is not only patently unconstitutional, but the idea that the government would criminalize people's choice to live together out of wedlock in this day and age defies logic and common sense."

The ACLU also considers pedophilia to be “unpopular”. They are not concerned with the damage done to women or children by such “popular” actions as living in a sexual relationship without marriage.

The number one disadvantage of shacking up is its detrimental impact on children. Statistically, cohabiting drastically increases the likelihood of a future break-up in the relationship, and children are often the unintended victims. One study by The Heritage Foundation estimated that nearly 80 percent of children in cohabiting households will spend a part of their childhood in a single-parent home. Research clearly indicates that children in fragmented families have poorer grades and more behavior problems than children in married family households.

Abuse is also endemic in cohabitation. Most children living in cohabiting homes are not biologically related to both parents, increasing the risk of sexual and physical abuse. The Heritage Foundation reports that rates of child abuse are as much as 33 times higher in cohabiting relationships than in stable married households.

In addition to children, women also suffer by settling for live-in boyfriends instead of husbands. An article in the Journal of Family Psychology found that married mothers enjoy higher levels of intimacy and improved psychological well being compared to women who cohabit. Married women also enjoy the benefits of markedly higher rates of sexual fidelity in their relationships. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2002, 92 percent of married males reported having had only one sexual partner over the preceding twelve months. Another study found that just 69 percent of cohabiting men could make the same claim.

The Cost Of Racism In California Prisons

The following excerpts are from the Associated Press article “Black, Hispanic Inmates Separated in L.A.” by Robert Jabloin.

California a liberal state that is beset by racial violence in its prisons. There solution is to segregate the races. The ACLU is behind their modal state.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that segregating prisoners by race is illegal except in extraordinary circumstances. The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said the riots qualify.

I agree with the sheriff’s officials view.

Klugman said sheriff's officials view the segregation as both morally and tactically unsound in the long run and do not plan to continue it for more than two weeks. Separating inmates by race creates suspicions, and hands a victory to those inmates who want racial isolation, he said.

This sounds like it is an ongoing problem that the jail has failed to resolve.

Pitchess has had more than 150 fights in the past 15 years, most often racially or gang motivated.

I believe the clergy can help but bad company corrupts good behavior. If the rabble rousers can be isolated and neutralized then the violence can be stopped.

On Thursday, sheriff's officials allowed 70 clergy members and about two dozen media representatives to talk with inmates. Many prisoners complained about being unable to shower or call home.

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All of the fights appeared to be orchestrated by ``shot-callers,'' or ringleaders, within the jails, officials said. Authorities said they were trying to identify them and move them out of their open dormitories to single-man cells at the county's downtown jail.

Negotiating with ringleaders sounds like a foolish thing to do when those ringleaders are willing to incite violence to achieve their goals. All they have to do is incite more violence in the future when then have so desire or another they want meant.

James Gilligan, a University of Pennsylvania professor and psychiatrist who directed mental health services in the Massachusetts prison system for many years, said he has been called in to help come up with solutions to the round of violence.

He said that in general, defusing prison violence involves negotiating with the ringleaders.

California already faces a high cost and broken prison system. I wonder where they plan to get the new funds to pay for the prisoner demands.

Congress Needs To Act In The Common Defense Of Our Economy

The following cites are from the Agence France-Presse article titled “Senators introduce legislation to repeal China's trading status “.

Legislation was introduced in the US Senate to repeal permanent normal trade relations status for China, citing Beijing's alleged unfair trade practices and a rocketing US trade deficit.

Trade practices are part of the common defense of the United States and when China’s Practice are unfair then we suffer. Our government has the duty to do what they believe is best for our interests.

They cited practices including piracy, currency manipulation, violation of its own labor laws, and barriers to prevent US products from entering the Chinese market.

"There's nothing normal or fair about any of these methods," Dorgan, the Democratic senator from North Dakota, told a news conference with Graham, a South Carolina legislator from President George W. Bush's Republican Party.

"This is drastic in the sense of politics but I think it's necessary in the sense of business," Graham said, adding that PNTR status should only be granted to China on an annual basis subject to progress on reforms.

Cautioning the lawmakers about their new action, US Trade Representative Rob Portman said any decision to withdraw the PNTR from China would be counterproductive.

All side of the issue do have to be considered but doing nothing is seldom the answer to resolving diplomatic issues between countries.

Portman pointed out that China was a vital market for the United States.

It is the biggest US export market in terms of growth, averaging around 15 to 20 percent over the last two years, among large economies, he said.

"It's been a great export market for us, and part of that is because they're now in the WTO, we're able to not only seek lower tariffs ... (and) we should not lose sight of the fact that in the export side it's created a lot of jobs in the US," he explained.

It sounds like there are benefits to the situation as it know exist but sometimes you make sacrifices now in order to obtain greater benefits later. Then there are other times you have to compromise. I wonder if it is American citizens or illegal aliens filling those jobs that are created.

He referred to the increasingly large savings in China compared to those in the United States and the "extremely high" US consumption rate relative to China.

The US deficit is expected to pass the key 200-billion-dollar mark when 2005 figures are released Friday, roughly 40 billion dollars more than the previous year, Dorgan and Graham said Thursday.

The deficit has me very concerned because it puts us into hock to countries such as China. China is able to loan us the money because they cheat us. Some of the deficit exist because China cheats us. I would say the situation needs to definitely change and if no one proposes a better ideal then I support withdrawing China’s status.

The Threat To Our Liberty That Is Presented By An Unbalanced Budget

This commentary is based on an Wall Street Journal article with the tile “Bush Would Boost Defense, Security In Budget Plan” By Deborah Solomon and John D. McKinnon

WASHINGTON -- President Bush submitted a federal budget that proposes to boost spending on defense, homeland security and scientific research, includes no significant restraint on Social Security and contains only modest curbs on Medicare.

In exchange, Mr. Bush would bring the budget knife down on domestic programs other than homeland security, the same small slice of the federal budget that Congress pared this year. The cuts would help Mr. Bush show a shrinking deficit for fiscal 2007, which begins Oct. 1, even though spending would rise 2.3%, or $62 billion, from the current fiscal year. The budget, released yesterday, doesn't propose any new taxes.

The budget is an important issue and determines what the United States can afford to do in order to ensure the rights of its citizens. At this time we exceed the amount we can afford and put ourselves in hock to countries like China, Japan, and Mexico. I do not insist on any particular budget plan except for insisting that abortion and other self destructive behavior is not supported. I do support reducing the budget below the amount we spend as a balanced budges is the same as overspending. We can loan any extra money to other countries or to businesses that are good investments.

Spending on Social Security would climb 5.6% to $581 billion next year -- all of it needed to pay benefits already provided by current law. Spending on the Medicare and Medicaid health-insurance programs for the elderly, disabled and poor would climb 10.4% to $592 billion. Mr. Bush proposes changes to the two programs, but they would save only $3.2 billion next year, and $40.8 billion over five years -- about 1.2% of the programs' projected five-year spending.

Most of the increase in spending here is because of the decrease in the number of young adults due to those killed by legal abortion and those killed or stopped from being conceived because of birth control products.

Spending for homeland security combines the government's priorities of fighting terrorism with the new political realities of 2006. The budget requests big increases for border control, in response to the increasingly contentious debate within Mr. Bush's own party over immigration, and a boost in spending on disaster response, following the federal government's poor initial response to Hurricane Katrina.

I believe that the government insuring every home and business that is struck by disaster is insanity. This is especially true when insurance companies will not insure them. People that build their house on sand should not be surprised if the house sinks below the ground and the rest of us should not be held accountable for their foolishness. I also hope that the spending on terrorism and border control can become more realistic.

Mr. Bush also proposes to pump up the budget for the National Science Foundation, the federal agency that provides grants for basic research in colleges and universities. The budget for the foundation would increase 7.9% in fiscal 2007, the first step in a planned doubling of its investments in science and engineering in the next decade. The expansion is part of his "American Competitiveness Initiative," aimed at keeping the U.S. in the lead in technology even as global rivals emerge in Asia and elsewhere.

I doubt that throwing money at the problem of the people of the United States not being completive will resolve the issue since the whole ideal of socialism that we embrace is to reduce competitiveness. That ideal is that competitiveness is evil.

The evidence seems to indicate that selling a sound budget to the people may be impossible. Nerveless I believe that politicians should make an effort to do so. I do not expect them to as they seem to feel a need to bribe their constituents .

The Hope To Ensure The Blessings Of Liberty For Our Posterity

The following quotes are from the Los Angeles Times article By Nicholas Riccardi titled “Court limits access to abortion records”

Kansas' attorney general cannot have unfettered access to the records of 90 patients who had abortions at two clinics, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, ending a case that had sparked a national outcry over patient privacy.

Reading the above I am reminded that even if Roe v. Wade is overturned we will still have to face activist state courts unless the Supreme Court decides that unborn children are persons according to the Fourteenth Amendment. That later is not an impossibility but would take a qualified lawyer to accomplish.

The two clinics — a Planned Parenthood facility in Kansas City and one in Wichita operated by Dr. George Tiller, known for performing late-term abortions — fought the subpoenas, arguing they would violate their patients' privacy.

On Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court agreed and ordered the trial judge to ensure that Kline needed the information and then to redact names and other confidential information before handing over files.

"The type of information sought by the state here could hardly be more sensitive, or the potential harm to patient privacy posed by the disclosure more substantial," Justice Carol Beier wrote for the court.

Blanking the names or information of the adults in the case seems to be fine as they can be sought if evidence is found that the abortion procedure was not “necessary”. When you are talking about victims of statutory rape you almost have to know who the victim is in order to determine who sired her child.

If this puts another stumbling block in front of abortion providers then it aids in slowing down the self destructive genocide that is going on in the United States. The public needs to be educated that unborn children are people and deserve the same protection under the law as every other human being.

Angry Young Men Are Made By Society And Not Born That Way

The accounts of the following even I obtained from the Associated Press articles “Friends: Suspect in attack never seemed anti-gay” and “Suspect's death doesn't end ordeal for New Bedford”

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — A teenager accused of going on a rampage at a gay bar with a hatchet and a gun sometimes glorified Nazism and had a swastika tattoo but never previously expressed any prejudice toward gays, friends say.

Jacob Robida, 18, was wanted in Thursday’s attack at Puzzles Lounge that left three men wounded, one critically. He remained at large Friday.

The teen vented his hostility by wounding three homosexual men. He would later kill a 33 year old woman, whom he was rumored to have previously lived with, and a police officer that pulled him over.

Police officers went to Robida’s home Thursday and spoke to his mother. According court papers, she said Robida came home around 1 a.m., bleeding from the head, then left. In his bedroom, officers found anti-Semitic writings on the wall.

His mother is mentioned but there is no mention of a father which makes me believe he is the product of a single parent household.

New Bedford police are still trying to determine what motivated Jacob Robida, 18, to use a hatchet and a handgun to send three customers of Puzzles Lounge to the hospital early on Thursday, and if the high school dropout had any help. Robida fled Massachusetts after the attack.

He is a high school drop out which is another symptom of a single parent household.

From reading this I am firmly convinced that Jacob Robida is the product of his environment. That environment was created by the social engineering of the government. The social engineering was accomplished through revoking and weakening the laws that existed to strengthen and uphold the institute of marriage. It was also accomplished through selling cohabitation. pre-marital sex, adultery and no fault divorce to the general public.

I hope the damage that was done by foolish though well meaning people can be undone.