Hmm... Abnormal

I was perusing a forum that I am a member of just now when I came accorss a link for an article on "the onion" web site. I clicked it out of curiosity. What I was filled me with mixed feelings.
Rep. Benjamin Sinclair was introducing the Ocular Penetration Bill. I spent half of the video trying to determine if it was for real. Around the time I realized it was I herad the man state how it would reduce the crime in three "fundamental ways."
1 - Mandatory five year prison scentance for violators.
2 - Increased police activity in high "ocular penetration areas."
3 - Community orieinted faith based programs to stop our children form "ocular penetration" before they get started.

Indeed, this is a problem. But it's a probem that I feel is best combated by parents who are actively involved in their kid[s]' lives. Unfortunately, faith based programs will only work if the parents accept Christ for them selves in the process (provided that the parent[s] aren't already saved) and begin to pray for their children. Community programs - faith based or otherwise - simply are not substitutions for parental responsibility in proper upbringing. Nevermind religion. Teach them what's right and wrong and insist - as their parent[s] - that as long as they can be legaly claimed on taxes, that the right thing will be expected of them. And the Bible does say "spare the rod spoil the child." It also warns not to be alarmed by their screams of bloody murder (their reaction to being spanked). Wanna know where it reads in Bible? Read it yourself. "Oh, he just doesn't know where it is in the Bible." Yeah, whatever. Get a Bible, read it and find out for yourself. But. I digress.
Now, I should admit that while I listened to Rep. Sinclair, I couldn't help but laugh a bit through out the video. Why? Because this gray-haired man kept refering to the crime by it "less formal" name.
Replace the word "ocular" with "skull" and "penetration" with the f word plus "ing." You get "skull ____ing." To hear him say it over and over again was kinda funny. To hear him refer to the violators as "skull ____ers" was even worse.
Back on a serious note. I believe that all crime would be drasticly recuced if we as parents made more of an effort to monitor our children and remain active in their lives.
Finally, an intresting side note to the same topic. There was a sargeant in my platoon when I was in the Army that had to do a paper for a college class he was taking. He decided to do it on crime in America and how it prigressed through the years (something like that). This man, who was not saved, shared with me a very interesting statistic. In his research he found that crime in America made a signigicant increase the same year the courts took prayer out of school.

'Til next time.