A little more than twenty-four hours after Janet Mills appeared at a celebration of same sex marriage in Portland, Maine's first female Attorney General also appeared at the opening of Dirigo Girls State in Bangor. Susan Collins was also scheduled to attend, but unexpectedly cancelled her appearance.
Girls State, of course, is a program which teaches young women about civics. One of the stated goals of Girls State is "to instill a greater understanding of our American traditions." The foremost of these traditions, as they pertain to politics, is the belief that all people have certain inalienable rights; and first among these rights is the right to life. As Janet Mills well knows, these inalienable rights are the foundation on which our entire political system rests, and therefore are the first principle of civics.
But the life and actions of Janet Mills and Susan Collins teach away from this principle. Both Mills and Collins believe in aborting unwanted children; and abortion deprives an unborn child of the right to life. Surely there is no more fundamental law than the law given to Moses on Mt. Sinai: "Thou shalt not kill." As reported in The RECORD, a new ultrasound technique makes it indisputably clear that abortion is an extremely cruel form of murder.
The purpose of Girls State is not to encourage the ambition and pride of young women, two qualities which Janet Mills and Susan Collins possess in a high degree. It is to teach civics as a means to an end, that end being the creation of a good, a just, and a moral society. Homosexuality and abortion are not means to that end; and if the young women participate in the sins advocated by Mills and Collins, they will find themselves very unhappy indeed.
Since society rests on moral principles, and is sustained by the life of coming generations, women politicians who advocate for homosexuality and abortion undermine society in ways faster and more thorough than those employed by criminals and subversives.
Abortion and homosexuality are two aspects of what might be called sexual emancipation, or "women's lib," if you prefer. In this pernicious doctrine, family and home, and even the unborn child, are sacrificed to personal ambition, and a mistaken notion of personal freedom.
To ask young women to emulate older women who believe political power can be achieved through sexual emancipation, including the murder of unborn children, is worse than ill-advised. It is evil.
Which begs the question, why are committed feminists held out as models for our young women, and not conservatives? Why not ask a Sarah Palin, a Michele Bachmann, or a Phyllis Schlafly to speak?
The obvious answer is that Ms. Mills's appearance at Girls State was only a lesson in civics on a superficial level. On a deeper level it was an attempt to make little copies of women's libbers. This surely was not the goal when the organization was founded by the American Legion Auxiliary in 1947.
To have two feminists who favor abortion and homosexual rights lecture young girls on civics is a prime example of what I call 'Jekyll and Hyde' morality. Ethical double-speak is not the exclusive property of a Janet Mills, a Susan Collins, a Larry Bliss, or the supremely glib Barney Frank. Rather, it belongs to anyone who attempts to cloak a great evil under a greater good.
