If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
Cal ThomasPeople, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
Cal ThomasGovernment has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
Cal ThomasAs with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.
Cal ThomasAll we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.
Cal Thomas