Pubdate: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN) Copyright: 2013 Chattanooga Publishing Company, Inc. Contact: http://www.timesfreepress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/992 Author: Brian Hale Page: B6 LIBERAL 'PROGRESS' IS JUST THE OPPOSITE Recently, I viewed a Georgia Public Television program promoting homosexuality. I flashbacked to programs for legalizing marijuana. In fuzzy '50s film clips, they portrayed conservatives as obsolete as black and white television, square as their thick framed glasses and narrow as their ties. They showed liberals well-focused as colorful, courageous veterans of persecution telling their own stories - style promoting substance. I also remembered a John Stossel program about three teenagers using marijuana. The smart kid was fine; marijuana relaxed his busy mind. The average kid became distracted; his grades went down. The weak kid became an addict; his grades plummeted. My point? The strong will kiss another girl, like it, and profit off a song about it. The mediocre will buy the song - and its acceptance of human degradation. But the weak will be all knotted up inside a Boy Scout tent. Liberal propaganda programs are as clumsy and dangerous experiments in social engineering as the shock treatment employed by the squares to repair homosexuals. Liberals promoted drug culture, helped dealers access our children and have thousands of strung-out addicts to show for it. What they call progress is really regress - and further back than the '50s. BRIAN HALE Red Bank - --- MAP posted-by: Matt