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Feb 20, 2004 Amazing! The Massachusetts Supreme Court registers an opinion and then orders a state legislature to establish a law legalizing same sex unions. The entire state, which is represented in the Senate by the non-illustrious Senators Teddy (The Wet One) Kennedy and John (EFFing-when-talking-to-Rolling Stone) Kerry is going to hell in a water balloon. Here are a couple of things some of you may have been missing through all the “same-sex” reporting. FIRST: “Harvard College's Committee on College Life on Tuesday approved the publication of a student-run erotic magazine.” Harvard has approved the publication of pornography, in the name of Harvard University! Amazing! Here is a quote from Harvard’s Web site “Introduction” for the College: “During its early years, the College offered a classic academic course based on the English university model but consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy of the first colonists.” My, have we come a long way! I’m sure the Puritans would have no problem endorsing an “erotic magazine”. The new publication is to be called “The H Bomb”. One of the magazine’s co-sponsors, Katharina C. Baldegg is quoted, "It's a sex magazine that will hopefully be run by students of all sexual orientations and backgrounds." To quote Harvard’s web site introduction again: “Harvard University, which celebrated its 350th anniversary in 1986, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the University has grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than 18,000 degree candidates, including undergraduates and students in 10 graduate and professional schools. An additional 13,000 students are enrolled in one or more courses in the Harvard Extension School. Over 14,000 people work at Harvard, including more than 2,000 faculty. There are also 7,000 faculty appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals,” and in all of that, there is not one major objection to the sponsorship of an “erotic magazine.” Fifty-four thousand individuals have affiliated themselves with a “sex magazine”. Amazing! “On Sept. 8, 1836, at Harvard's Bicentennial celebration, it was announced that President Josiah Quincy had found the first rough sketch of the College arms - a shield with the Latin motto "VERITAS" ("Verity" or "Truth") on three books - while researching his History of Harvard University in the College Archives.” In 1843 “VERITAS” was counted as the official motto for the College. I suppose that people being presented in their “birthday suits” in an official college publication can’t be much more truthful. Harvard has told the undergrads that the publication is fine as long as none of the nudity is photographed “inside” any building belonging to the University. The article from the “Harvard Crimson” continued: "Initially there was some concern about the nudity aspect," said co-sponsor and junior Camilla A. Hardy, adding that the approval committee eventually "got past the fear of porn." They did not get past the “FACT” it was porn. They got past the “FEAR” of it being porn. It must be okay then. Now, I would like to meet the members of this “approval committee”. Do you know that Harvard has produced seven presidents of the United States – John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W. Bush; and more than 30 winners of the Nobel Prize. I sincerely doubt that anyone on the so-called “approval committee” even comes close to the caliber of that group. With one exception: Wasn’t Arafat a winner of a Nobel Peace Prize? That would be about the speed of the “approval committee”. Fortunately, Arafat was not a Harvard graduate. (If the gloves don’t fit….) Harvard’s Internet introduction also contained this following half-truth: “Although many of its early graduates became ministers in Puritan congregations throughout New England, the College was never formally affiliated with a specific religious denomination [except perhaps, the Puritans?]. An early brochure, published in 1643, justified the College's existence: "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches." The College may not have been specifically for the furtherance of the religion of the Puritans, but it was most certainly for the furtherance of the ministry and the expansion of religious tenants to guide any American life of liberty. The bulk of the early graduated of Harvard were learned men of the faith. Now? “Only Harvard undergraduates will be posing for the magazine, Baldegg said, all over 18. The publication will also feature erotic artwork and fiction.” All of which has been approved and allowed by fifty-four thousand individuals affiliated with the “sex magazine”. I am beginning to wonder if the alumni have been told of this? I already know that several generations of past graduates are rolling over in their coffins. Ms. Baldegg and Ms. Hardy hope to have their first issue completed by the May graduation ceremony to ensure all the proud moms and dads can get their copy and trade compliments about the where-with-alls of their darling (naked) sons and daughters. This brings me to the SECOND, incredible Massachusetts dive into the world of the sexually immoral. Mr. Bill O’Reilly of the FOXNEWS Channel profiled Massachusetts’ Amherst High School’s play offering of “The Vagina Monologues”. To quote Mr. O’Reilly, “That play is based on interviews with 200 women about their sexual experiences. It features very explicit language and images.” This play has been around for some time now. I had no idea it would ever become an offering for a “high school” level theatrical production. If “R” rated movies require parents to accompany their teens, certainly this “R” rated play required the same. I saw some the post-play interviews with the parents who did attend the play with their pre-teens and younger children. As a single voice, they were approving of the play, even with the references to the “C” word, and the graphic depictions of self-sexual conduct. Oh, they had no problem with the act of statutory rape either. So, I suppose the State of Massachusetts will be putting new (or nude) depictions on their automobile license plates. They will be lowering the legal age to wed to 12-years old. They will be burning all references to the Puritans in the State’s historical documents and Teddy (The Wet One) Kennedy will finally be unburdened of any accusations of adultery or sexually immoral activity with someone other than his wife. Amazing! ------------ About the Author: Independent, Conservative, Christian. Married 29 years with 5 children raised and one grandson being raised. 30 year Army Veteran and published poet with www.poetry.com since Y2K. Email Michael John McCrae: michael.mccrae@us.army.mil Comment on this column in the forum. Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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