Is there no debate that can take place in contemporary society that conservatives do not view as a conspiracy to take away their guns, seize their land, pervert our educational system, force our children to use contraceptives and plan to promote a secret homosexual agenda in the school system?
Not everything
is a conspiracy
Is there no debate that can take place in contemporary society that conservatives do not view as a conspiracy to take away their guns, seize their land, pervert our educational system, force our children to use contraceptives and plan to promote a secret homosexual agenda in the school system?
To C. Moore’s complaint about the Help Center: Did anyone force her children to seek their advice or force them to board a van to obtain the information that was probably lacking in their parenting skills? Are pap smears, birth control and abortion counseling inherently bad things? Hawaii does after all have a high rate of teen pregnancy. No student was “given service” unless they asked for them. Unless you believe the school had monthly field trips to the clinic.
It is incumbent on the parent to know what is being offered at our public schools. I do not foresee a class in homosexual studies in the future. We cannot allow our paranoid fear or our religion to cloud our judgement. Your children will develop into the person they were born to be. As parents we try to instill in our children the hopes and values that we consider appropriate. Our children often see things differently.
If you have done your best then you have done your job. And if you do not like the public school system, there is always a charter, private or home-schooling alternative. None of these issues exists in those venues I am sure.
Greg Miller
Kalaoa
Why aren’t GMO companies touting it?
With regards to Michael Shintaku’s letter claiming that GMO products use substantially less pesticides, and are, otherwise so wonderful for the consumer in other ways: So how come Monsanto, and other GMO manufacturers have always fought tooth and nail to not be mandated to inform the consumer that their product is “GMO related” on the product’s label?
Everyone is willing to pay more for food labeled “organic,” so, if a GMO product is so great, how come the GMO lobby doesn’t have an ad campaign out there to educate the population on the benefits of GMO, and then trumpet the GMO label on all their products, and thus ultimately charge even more money than what they could otherwise?
Methinks “Something is rotten in Denmark.”
Carl Merner
Holualoa