By Judie Brown
We often suspect that there is a hidden agenda within the confines of language. That’s how the cunning operate. A case in point is John Hickenlooper, the 73-year-old United States senator from Colorado. According to news reports, he is a sponsor of the Stop Comstock Act, which would repeal the 1873 “measure that outlaws the mailing of ‘lewd’ and ‘indecent’ literature.”
That law covered the mailing of contraception as well, suggesting that it too was lewd and indecent activity. NPR suggests that Comstock was an anti-vice crusader who had a penchant for trying to end evil enterprises that employed the US mail to convey their messages. While Comstock used the law to prevent the wholesale distribution of chemicals that can kill the preborn and harm women, Hickenlooper wants to officially permit these same women to poison their bodies with pills that are mailed directly to their homes.
Permission to kill an innocent person in private should not be among the activities of a sane government.
Speaking of sanity, what in the world has happened to the language employed by the United States Supreme Court? In a recent report we find that the court has given permission to each state to cut off the funding from Planned Parenthood and its ilk if they choose to do so.
But here is the problem. From a moral perspective, the court has washed its hands of threats to our children, born and preborn. It has said that parents can opt out of LGBTQ lessons, but if they want the brainwashing to continue, they are free to approve by doing nothing to stop it.
Additionally, the court has given permission to each state to enforce age verification standards for pornographic website, if they choose to do so.
Not all of the justices concurred in these opinions. Apparently, Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson think that teachers should be permitted to read stories about LGBTQ persons aloud in class.
This prompted one insightful writer to opine:
My favorite response to the tall tales being told by the Court’s minority, many Democrats, and religious shills for gender ideology is to demand these stories be told . . . out loud, in public. Because, after having listened to an excerpt from some books being defended for young people read aloud in a school board meeting—content that would have largely been bleeped out like Senator Kennedy’s public reading—the local mayor was unambiguous: either get these “stories” out of school or he would file charges against the Board under his state’s distribution of obscenity to minors statutes.
On another topic, a Massachusetts district court judge has rebuked Trump’s denial of funding to Planned Parenthood. Obama-appointed judge Indira Talwani has given temporary permission for state money to continue flowing into Planned Parenthood’s coffers.
Katie Glenn Daniel, the director of legal affairs and policy counsel at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said, “Before the ink was even dry on President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, abortion giant Planned Parenthood ran to court to protect their cash flow of over $2 million a day from American taxpayers, and an activist federal judge obliged by ordering the spigot turned back on.”
When judicial permission is granted to the nation’s number one killer of babies and enemy of chastity, we can honestly say that this judge, too, is simply another abortion shill.
Such calamitous actions as those cited above make a good point regarding the Ten Commandments: They are not suggestions. Rather, they are laws that give each human being permission to choose to be servants of the Lord or tools of Satan.