Leaving Downey

Dear Editor:So my kids got a side of drag queen with their Santa on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade show, and my lefty friends think I'm positively "medieval" for having a problem with it. Have a giant helping of RuPaul on the Muppets, lesbian wedding announcements in the paper, and pass the laws encouraging kids to pick their gender-of-the-day! I have told my lefty friends that I would fight for their parental rights to fill their own kids' heads with all their nonsense if they respected my right to keep my kids untainted by this brave new world, but there is no reciprocal respect. None. Their way or the highway. I need to get with the 21st century and accept the new civil right to wear one's private bedroom habits and sexual confusion on their sleeve. And so the divide between left and right becomes a giant chasm. We don't even speak the same language anymore. But I find it amusing when secular lefties try to speak "religion" with arguments defending all the nonsense like "God doesn't make mistakes." I'll give them an "E" for effort, but they may as well have said "I see my own rear end" because logic was lost in their translation. The idea that all sexual or any other human behavior is genetic and therefore intended by God doesn't work because I have yet to hear anyone claim that, for example, God approves of rape or molestation of children yet it happens everyday. God doesn't make mistakes, but people do. And who exactly is "medieval?" With Hedonism, Epicurianism, Libertineism - call it what you wish - as their religion, lefties have ordered their own Inquisition against anyone - including scientists - who dare challenge their heart-felt feelings that all human sexual behavior is entirely genetic and natural (as if all things "natural" are good). They completely ignore the nurture half of the equation and that the complex relationship between the two in any human behavior can be unpredictable. All I ask is for some recognition that this grand, unprecedented evolving social experiment could possibly have disastrous results. With the way they are heavily promoting it to our youth, we will know soon enough. In the meantime, I must uproot my family and leave this place of nice weather and erratic people for one of those flyover states where the reverse is true - and in which lefties wouldn't dare be seen - to protect my precious children. I only get them for so long before the culture tries to swallow them up, and here, the culture demands them at a younger and younger age assuring they are too helpless to resist the seduction of sex, drugs, and rock and roll - a Hedonist's creed. There is much we will miss about Downey and California, including my lefty friends who have always been the epitome of infectious joy in person. Thank you to the Patriot staff for publishing my good letters and not publishing the particularly frothy ones. We have many stories to tell the folks back home about California. I'm sure they will think we're making it all up! Alaina Niemann Downey

********** Published: Dec. 12, 2013 - Volume 12 - Issue 35