What kind of people are these parents?

 

How many of you would find it acceptable to subject your children to national public ridicule? I do not understand the reasoning and the logic of the parents of Coy Mathis, one of a set of triplets.

 

Coy Mathis is a little 6-year-old boy whose parents have allowed him to believe he is a girl. Coy's school refused to allow him to use the little girls' restroom but told him he did not have to use the little boys' room, either. He could use the restroom in the nurse's office or the restroom in the teacher's lounge.

 

Now, if Coy didn't announce to the world that he was going to the restroom, how many of those kids do you think would have even taken notice that he wasn't going to the same restrooms they were? But Coy's parents raised a big ruckus and put him in the national spotlight. Little Coy was suffering humiliation, stigmatization, and discrimination, they claimed. Well, he certainly is now! At a press conference (where Coy was dressed in a glittery pink top and pink tennis shoes), the parents celebrated a ruling by the Colorado Division of Civil Rights that said Coy could use the little girls' room.

Who do you suppose dressed Coy in the girly clothes? His mother says that from the time he was 18-months-old, he wore a little fairy dress with a tutu and a Dora the Explorer bathing suit. I don't think Coy went out and bought them and dressed himself. His dad says that when they sent out photos of him dressed this way, they began to "detect a pattern." No foolin', Clyde??!! They say that at around four years of age, Coy began to ask when he was going to the doctor to get his "girl parts." How did a four-year-old even know of such a thing? Maybe Mama and Daddy, for some hinky reason, told him they were going to get him some "girl parts"? No, I don't think Coy's school has had anything to do with humiliating and stigmatizing him -- his clueless parents are handling that very well by themselves.

 

As for Coy, he says, "Not even my teachers know I'm a girl!" If Coy has male genitalia, he is not a girl. My question is how the parents of all the little girls in that school feel about a little boy using the bathroom with their daughters. If I were those parents, I'd be demanding a separate bathroom for my daughter!

Note of interest: I did a little internet research and found that this family lived in the Austin, Texas, area when the triplets were born. Wouldn't you think that a woman pregnant with triplets would be at a higher risk than one with a single baby or even twins? Well, this dodo had the kids at home, and one of the children is profoundly disabled from having contracted an infection. I found a website where they were seeking donations of diapers, gift cards, formula, etc. It included this interesting note from the mother: "Thank you all so much for continuing to care. My family has just stopped
coming over or trying to really help at all." Why do you suppose that would be? I cannot imagine a grandmother, aunt, or uncle not offering help in a situation like that. What could these people have done to estrange their families?

And here's another perspective I found from the mom of another set of triplets: "My opinion, based on my knowledge, is the mom of this child is a fame-seeking attention [expletive deleted], who will stop at nothing to prove how edgy and non-mainstream she is, even at the expense of her child's privacy. I 'met' her online six years ago when she came to the Triplet Connection and made a huge ruckus because she was dead-set on homebirthing her 'natural' triplets in a kiddie pool in her living room. I thought she was a faker, so I immediately set out to see if she was real, or not, where I discovered that she didn't, in fact, have 'natural' triplets. She had ordered clomid from Mexico, and gotten pregnant using non-prescribed fertility drugs."

And yet another perspective on how her little girl became disabled:
 
And then there was the "Donate to buy a wheelchair van for Lily" campaign. For $1, they'd friend you on Twitter or Facebook or some such nonsense. For $10 you'd get a public Facebook thank you. For $100 you'd get a picture drawn by Lily (the child the mother claims is helpless as a 2-month-old -- can't say that I've seen much art by infants that young). And for $500 you'd get a playdate with Lily. One mother blogged back that she'll let you come play with her kids for $500, too!

Some of the blogging moms of triplets think this woman is guilty of Munchhausen's by Proxy. They may just be on to something there.

 

http://fourtimesthefun.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-one-where-i-weigh-in-on.html

"Transgender girl wins ruling." The Dallas Morning News; June 25, 2013; p. 4A.

We just want to be tolerated.

Exodus International was a ministry that stood up for the Bible in its proclamation that homosexual behavior is an abomination in the sight of God. But I guess the PC folks finally got to them. Alan Chambers, the leader of the ministry, has apologized to homosexuals.

Of course, the queers are ecstatic. But it seems it's about more than "just toleration." Sharon Groves, the director of a gay-rights organization, said, "Now we need them to take the next step . . . and persuade all other religious-based institutions that they got it wrong." Persuade all you want to, Sharon, but when it comes to what Sharon says or what Alan Chambers says or what God says, guess who I'm going with?

"Ministry tells gays it's sorry." The Dallas Morning News; June 21, 2013; p. 8A.

Everything's a health crisis.

 

Everything's a health problem now. I've posted about how the CDC is now in charge of the health problem of gun violence. And now violence against women is a "global health problem of epidemic proportions" according to Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization.

 

Make no mistake -- this isn't just words. There is an agenda behind declaring all the meanness in the world as "health problems." And the agenda has to do with power. If it's a health problem, then Obama can throw it under Obamacare and weasel his way into tossing the Second Amendment and the Fourth Amendment and the First Amendment and any other that happens to be getting in his way.

 

"Report: 30% of women abused." The Dallas Morning News; June 21, 2013; p. 14A.

Have a mirror handy, Anna?

 

 

People really amuse me sometimes. Anna Gutierrez says that what's wrong with our country are the people who are quick to blame someone else. She says everyone is busy telling someone else how to live his life. What we really need, Anna says, is for all those people who are at fault to quit blaming others and look in the mirror.

 

She says if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself. Uhhhhh, Anna -- do you have a mirror handy? Or are you too busy blaming all these other people for our country's ills and trying to tell them how to live their lives?

 

"Take a look inside." The Dallas Morning News; June 24, 2013; p. 12A.

You do have a place prepared.

 

Laura Cox is an atheist. She and her family celebrate "Giftmas" instead of Christmas. She says, "What motivates me is that as a human, discrimination bothers me greatly, and I want there to be a safe place for atheists."

 

Well, Laura, I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that there has, indeed, been a place prepared for you. The bad news is, I don't think you're going to like it.

 

"A cross they hate to bear." The Dallas Morning News; April 3, 2012, p. 1B.

From the WIST File

 

"The difference beween stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

 

~Albert Einstein

But is it constitutional?

 

 

Teresa Rousseau has my deepest sympathy. Her daughter, a teacher, was killed at the Sandy Hook School massacre. I understand Teresa's zeal to do something about what happened. But in her grief, Teresa is completely missing the boat.

 

Teresa recently participated in a rally calling for gun control. She said, "I think it's time the average American gets a little louder in what he has to say." So Teresa is all for the First Amendment right to say what she wants as loudly as she wants. And that's good. But what she's loudly calling for completely negates the Second Amendment. Our right to keep and bear arms "shall not be infringed." I'll grant that our government has already imposed an unconstitutional onus on us by requiring gun owners to jump through all sorts of hoops, but that doesn't mean we have to let it keep going.

 

Teresa is right -- the average American should stand up and speak loudly as our constitutionally protected liberties are slowly chipped away. We no longer have the freedom to practice our religion anywhere we choose. We no longer have the freedom to openly carry a firearm. Our private records are now public fodder for the NSA. We no longer have the right to associate or not associate with whomever we choose. The IRS confiscates our money in order to give it to someone else. And the list goes on and on.

 

So we need to stand up with Teresa and shout, "ENOUGH! We will not allow another liberty to be trampled upon by an out-of-control government that's grown way too big for its britches!"

 

"Rally doubles as call for gun control." The Dallas Morning News; June 15, 2013; p. 4A.