{"id":5937,"date":"2006-01-06T05:45:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T10:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2006-01-06T05:45:48","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T10:45:48","slug":"call-the-dhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5937","title":{"rendered":"CALL THE DHS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalnow.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_ColumnistArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1128769125775&#038;path=!opinion&#038;s=1037645509163\">threat<\/a> to the survival of the country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The level-headed response of Cal Thomas (&#8220;Wake up,&#8221; Dec. 29) to the court decision barring the teaching of intelligent design as science in the public schools was so surprising I wondered if he could be serious. Then came the punch line: Religious parents should remove their children from public schools and place them in private or home schools, where they will be taught the truth according to their parents&#8217; beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Back when the public-school system was a pillar of our democracy, most Christians saw their role as that of leaven in the collective loaf, being &#8220;in the world but not of the world.&#8221; Have we now gone from being leaven to wanting to be the whole loaf?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Herbert&#8217;s column &#8220;Solution,&#8221; (Dec. 29) addressing the need for personal and community responsibility, was directly related.<\/p>\n<p>Following desegregation, white flight from the public schools yanked the underpinnings of community involvement and responsibility from the system. If we are to survive as a democracy, we must all work together constructively &#8211; whites, blacks and Hispanics, left and right, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, secular and religious, capitalists and social advocates &#8211; instead of tearing the country apart.<\/p>\n<p>W. EUGENE RUBLE<br \/>\nWinston-Salem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I should have known better.  &#8220;Level-headed&#8221; and &#8220;Cal Thomas&#8221; should not ever appear together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a threat to the survival of the country: The level-headed response of Cal Thomas (&#8220;Wake up,&#8221; Dec. 29) to the court decision barring the teaching of intelligent design as science in the public schools was so surprising I wondered if he could be serious. Then came the punch line: Religious parents should remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}