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July 8, 2016 Radio Commentary

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It didn’t Happen Overnight

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, July 8, 2016 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Some may be stunned by the apparent “sudden” prevalence of immorality, but it was NOT sudden, at all. It was an inevitable outcome of a carefully planned strategy to destroy the moral fabric of this great nation.

Today I’ll begin to outline the chronological process of change that brought us to this place. We’ll start in 1988 when Dr. Robert A. Hatcher’s book Contraceptive Technology of 1988-1989 described the authors’ attitudes toward “Abstinence and the Range of Sexual Expression.”

Dr. Hatcher, then-Director of Emory University’s Family Planning Program, now Professor Emeritus of Emory’s School of Gynecology and Obstetrics, is the first of seven Contraceptive Technology authors listed. Along with Dr. Hatcher, 37 other Georgians contributed to his book, which is currently in its 19th edition. Of 23 states contributing to the 1980s editions, Georgia’s 37 participants far outnumbered other states. California came in second with only 19. Continue reading →

July 1, 2016 Radio Commentary

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Georgia’s First LGBT School

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, July 1, 2016 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

A new private school is scheduled to open in Georgia in September.  Its name is Pride School Atlanta and its aim is to attract lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and teachers.  Pride School Atlanta will be the first private school for LGBT in the South, but not first in the country.  The first opened in Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas in 1997, but closed in 2004.

New York City’s Harvey Milk school opened in 2003 as a public LGBT school funded by 3.2 million tax dollars,  That school originated from a 1985 social-service agency program teaching displaced youths to earn a GED degree.  In 2001 it became an accredited, four-year, diploma-granting high school.

The founder of Pride School Atlanta is a transgender male who has taught math and other subjects since 1992.  The school will initially operate out of a church – the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta.  Tuition will be about $13,000, with financial assistance available.

Pride School Atlanta will be a “Free Model school” tailored after schools in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Brooklyn.  “Free Model” means students will “explore freely, think critically, and work collaboratively, across ages, to govern themselves and their school.”  Brooklyn’s Free Model School embedded “education for social justice” strategies throughout its curriculum. Continue reading →

June 24, 2016 Radio Commentary

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Women in Foxholes

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, June 24, 2016 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Three years ago, a decree came down from the administration that gave the military until January 2016 to integrate women into all combat jobs, but that decree also authorized branches of the military to ask for specific exemptions. Acting on that decree, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced on December 3rd that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women.

That was not good news to General Joseph Dunford, Jr., who is a former Marine Corps commandant and current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He skipped the Defense Secretary’s announcement ceremony, but said, “I have had the opportunity to provide my advice on the issue of full integration of women into the armed forces. In the wake of the secretary’s decision, my responsibility is to ensure his decision is properly implemented.” In other words, he will do his job.

Since the decree had an opt-out provision, the Marine Corps learned through studying its units that all-male units had much lower injury rates and higher overall performance than co-ed units. So, the Marines asked permission to exempt females from infantry and armor positions. However, Defense Secretary Carter did not honor the opt-out provision, overruled the Marines, and mandated that the military operate under a common set of standards. Continue reading →

June 17, 2016 Radio Commentary

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The General Got Fired … for Five Hours

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, June 17, 2016 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Some time in your life, you’ve probably said: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me.” Maybe, they shouldn’t, but they do, especially in this day and age.

Case in point is Lt. General Jerry Boykin, who was President Bush’s Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. He was in the Army for 36 years, and 13 of those years he served on Delta Force counter-terrorist missions, including the Iran hostage rescue attempt, the hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia, and Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu.

General Boykin is a born-again Christian and, to get to my point, I’ll fast-forward to 2007 when he retired from the Army and took a teaching job at Hampden-Sydney College, one of two all-men’s colleges left in the U.S. He’s taught there for nine years, and has been Executive Vice President of Family Research Council since 2012.

The General, who is a seasoned successful warrior on the battlefield, just emerged as a target in the culture war about sex, gender and who uses which restroom. In his speech to conservatives in March, the General jokingly said, “The first man who goes into the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery!” Continue reading →