Category Archives: Radio Commentaries

May 18, 2018 Radio Commentary

Posted on by

Glad I don’t Live in California!

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, May 18, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

You’ve probably heard that whatever happens in California spreads to the rest of the country. If true, we’re in for big trouble in Georgia, because parents of students in California have just been told they cannot opt their children out of the newly “integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and inclusive comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education” for K – 12 students.

That opinion was published in the March 29th memo of Orange County Department of Education general council Ronald Wenkart who said, “Education Code Section 51938 allows a parent or guardian to excuse their child from all or part of comprehensive sexual health education.” Then, he said, “Parents who disagree with the instructional materials related to gender, gender ID, gender expression and sexual orientation may not excuse their children from this instruction. However, parents are free to advise their children that they disagree with some or all of the information presented in the instructional program and express their views on these subjects to their children.”

This government power grab violates the right of parents to determine the up-bringing of their children and every California parent should object to any school’s use of such indoctrination. In its analysis of the law, the California Department of Education infers that children have a right to engage in sexual relationships with other children, regardless of age. That is a false assumption. Continue reading →

April 27, 2018 Radio Commentary

Posted on by

Couldn’t Get Rid of “Safe Spaces”

If the original version of S.B. 339 had passed, students could no longer have infringed upon other students’ freedom of speech. Students who continued to limit the freedom of speech of others would have been warned the first time; then suspended or expelled the second time. Since that was deleted before S.B. 339 passed, safe spaces and unconstitutional gag orders will continue. The term “gag order” is accurate, since safe space areas in colleges and universities squelch opinions the politically correct crowd finds offensive or contrary to its agenda.

S.B. 339 was cut in half. The prohibition of safe spaces was deleted and prohibition against peer-on-peer harassment in safe spaces was deleted, also. The bill’s focus became freedom of speech protection for visiting speakers and students in assembly. Therefore, S.B. 339 requires the board of regents to write a system-wide freedom-of-speech policy that protects the press and invited speakers and assures students and faculty the right to assemble spontaneously in constitutional activities that do not interfere with scheduled events, campus activities or invited speakers who might be heckled, otherwise. Meaning, the freedom of speech will be protected in assemblies but not in safe spaces. Assemblies and safe spaces are two different issues. Continue reading →

April 20, 2018 Radio Commentary

Posted on by

Georgia’s NOT “Like Nazi Germany!”

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, April 20, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

They were discussing S.B. 452 when the Republican vice-chairman of the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee said, “This isn’t Nazi Germany – we are not asking people to carry their papers around on them at all times.”

He’s right, this is not Nazi Germany, but he was wrong to change the word “shall” in S.B. 452 to “may,” because shall is a requirement; may is permissive, and requires nothing. After gutting shall from the bill, the vice-chairman explained it this way, “In section one we did change a ‘shall’ back to a ‘may.’ There were some concerns within the business community with international companies. A CEO or somebody might be here with a foreign driver’s license and if they were pulled over for some reason and if they didn’t have their visa on them … we want to allow for the police officer to maintain some discretion there.”

S.B. 452 is the Ensuring Necessary Deportations Act that would have allowed peace officers to investigate and learn the immigration status of criminal suspects. It, also, required sentencing courts to determine the defendant’s legal status and send the result to the Department of Homeland Security. It would have required local law enforcement to comply with federal law and cooperate with ICE by detaining, arresting and transporting the criminal. Continue reading →

April 13, 2018 Radio Commentary

Posted on by

Day of Dialogue vs. Day of Silence

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, April 13, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

The Day of Silence was founded in 1996 at the University of Virginia to promote alternate lifestyles in colleges. A year later, almost 100 colleges and universities participated and by 2008 over 8,000 middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities were registered as participants. The Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network that sponsors the event provides for registration on the Internet.

Sixteen years ago, the day of silence was observed on April 10th in 15 Georgia high schools and five colleges – Georgia Tech, Spelman, West Georgia State University, the University of Georgia and Wesleyan College. No doubt, those numbers have increased dramatically. The goal of the observance is to squelch all opposition to homosexuality, bisexuality and other lifestyles.

Calls to several Georgia schools that year revealed that some knew and approved of the observance; others said students had listed their schools; East Paulding High was on spring break; Rabun Gap Nacoochee alerted teachers that students might participate; and Villa Rica tried to remove the school name from the list, but couldn’t. Continue reading →