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08/07/2008
When your Op-Eds aren't picked up, just repackage them as 'press releases'
This writer is a former PR professional, who knows a thing or two about press releases. Throughout my training and work experience, those forms of written communication were always publicity tools that either sold a product, person, place, or idea via effusive prose and effective promotion. Like calling cards, essentially, which are meant to get the word out to the press and, ultimately, the public at large.
Well over at Christian NewsWire, the term seems to be used much more loosely. For judging by the latest to hit that wire service, any old anti-gay commentary or long-winded editorial constitutes a "press release." This from an anti-gay writer by the name of Steve Krotoski:
MEDIA ADVISORY, Aug. 7 /Christian Newswire/ -- Should government money and resources be used to harm families and children? In California shocking things are happening. It seems the government wants to take away protection of families and children so those who oppose families don't get offended.
First, Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to force homosexuality promotion upon California's children. Many believe these "laws" are the worse thing ever done in California history. Why? Imagine the consequences of a little boy trusting his "teacher" telling him that he may "be a girl". Years later, this lie leads the man to loneliness, guilt, a wrong focus and he never learns how to love a family. He may also have diseases and the woman who wanted to love him, can't. The school harmed society.
Today, California schools forbid saying anything negative about homosexuals. Many times boys use the girls' restroom and girls use the boys' restroom because of homosexual activism. How come the best country, the USA, didn't do this the last 232 years?
School money is wasted as textbooks are rewritten to remove references to "mother" and "father". Most people find that offensive. It is untruthful. Couldn't the money be used more wisely to build a field, pave the tennis courts, or improve math scores? Why do children go to school anyway?
Then there are the embarrassed government workers who forcefully had to participate in "gay" parades. Many government workers have families. Do you remember the abused San Diego firemen who were made to parade against their desires? They felt shame.
This raises more concerns. Like, why is government money used to promote homosexuality? Something many find offensive. Why - if the majority thinks differently? And how many California government workers could have kept their jobs instead of recently being laid off if money was not funneled away to discriminate against families?
Then there are the Supreme Court "judges" who try to force homosexual "marriage". Didn't Californians vote against homosexual "marriage"? Other states complained but they were ignored. Judges have not acted like this before. Where is right and wrong?
Jerry Brown, California Attorney General, decided to rewrite the marriage proposition to favor homosexuals. Not only is this unfair, it is against the 1.1 million voters who put Proposition 8 on the ballot.
If that is not enough, the public utility company, PG & E, and the Teacher's Association together gave $500,000 toward brainwashing people to say "no" to real marriage. Is that what public utilities and a teacher's association are supposed to do? How come electricity is so expensive? What about the teachers who are afraid to loose their jobs if they think differently than the Teacher's Association?
This is a shame for California, but it gets worse and shows the true colors of homosexual activism. The City of Oakland made it against the law to use the words "natural family", "marriage" and "family values". This went to the district court and the court agreed. So, if you use these words, you get fired. Is that fair? But you can talk about homosexuality.
What happened to free speech? Or, according to the voting record, are the Democrats generally trying to take free speech and American freedom away? Is this what the founders of America wanted? Of course not.
So, is discrimination against families the consequence of trying to take prayer out of schools and the Ten Commandments out of courtrooms?
How come the Bible was the first and only textbook in US schools? Why did George Washington say, "What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ" and "it is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible". This is American history.
Not too long ago people had lasting relationships. Most everyone had a mom and a dad.
I am glad I grew up with a mom and a dad. If you did, aren't you?
It is time to stop the corruption. Will the government start doing what is right and protect families and children?
There are four things you can do: First, remember the power of prayer. Pray this prayer sincerely: Father, we ask for a righteous government in California – a government who cares for families and children in Jesus' name. Second, refuse to vote for those who take away family rights. (Check out your candidate's voting record, not what they say.) Third, call each agency and tell them your free speech is being taken away with homosexual favoritism and you don't like it. And finally, urge every Californian to vote Yes on Proposition 8.
Steve Krotoski is the author of "The Kingdom: Experiencing Heaven on Earth", www.TheKingdomBook.com. Steve explains powerful truths through TV, radio, and the Internet, including how to walk closely with God and apply God's Kingdom laws.
But then again, we did pick it up. So perhaps this a brilliant press release.
Though it's hard to consider any publicity tool "brilliant" when the product it is selling is so outlandishly silly! I mean, gays are out to stifle free speech? The utter lie that the city of Oakland has banned the words "natural family", "marriage" and "family values"? That restroom-swapping is the young schoolboy and schoolgirl's new favorite activity? There would seem to be such a thing as "bad press" when talking about irrational, pro-discrimination fallacy.
Are Family Haters Lurking in California Government [Christian Newswire "press release"]
Your thoughts
As a man with family values, I am uncertain what it meant when one asserts that gay marriage is "the worse thing ever done in California history." Worse than what?
So, too, I am unfamiliar with the infinitive, "to loose," being used with the direct object, "job." However, If someone wrote "I am afraid to loose my job if...," I would infer that they have trepidations about quitting their job. However, if they wrote "I am afraid to lose my job if...," I would infer they had serious concerns about being fired.
Now, I am personally unfamiliar with California employment law. However, if it similar to my home state, public schools are not some sort of closed shop only open to teachers who belong to the state NEA chapter. Additionally, many teachers in my home state disagree with various points or techniques advocated by the NEA. This does not mean they face expulsion from the state NEA or risk losing their jobs.
I am so sick and tired of people using works full of such blatant ignorance to stir up fear and action in the ignorant masses. Additionally, I'm not saying that my own writing is generally free of spelling, grammar, and usage errors. However, I would be embarrassed to consistently release works with such blatant errors.
Posted by: Timm | Aug 7, 2008 6:14:59 PM
That is just incredibly bad writing! You almost have to feel sorry for the guy. Usually my first draft of anything is extremely sub-par, and I fully admit it. But, I usually get close to something half-way respectable after a couple of revisions. But, this Krotoski guy couldn't possibly have reread this.
They really are scraping the bottom of a scummy, sludge-crusted barrel if they are relying on writing like this to make their points. Assuming that Steve Krotoski has graduated from high School, he should have spent more time studying English and logic if his intention was to become gainfully employed as a writer.
A little debate experience wouldn't have hurt his cause either. It certainly doesn't surprise me that none of the respectable publications would publish it as an op-ed - present company excepted, of course, because it is fun that we can laugh about their ineptitude.
Posted by: Dick Mills | Aug 7, 2008 10:31:36 PM
It's fine to pick out the inconsistencies in this particular piece. Why not do the same with the opinion of the Supreme Court of California in "re Marriage Cases"? Check out my blog...
Posted by: Paul Benedict | Aug 10, 2008 2:33:43 PM
Oh Paul.
Posted by: G-A-Y | Aug 10, 2008 6:20:44 PM
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