I did not become an editorialist to hide behind code-words. The English-only initiative in California s recent election was misguided. It is based on the realization that we are losing our country. The silly unitarian notion that you can make one nation out of many peoples is coming to a disastrous end in the late 20 th century. Furthermore, like the cultic evangelical Christian churches which debase everything their ancestors considered sacred in order to reach out to non-Christians, so English is bastardized by those wanting desperately to hold onto their ideal of one nation of immigrants.
Language is the glue that holds people together.
It is the medium through which culture, heritage, and faith are passed to the young. The debasement of the English language was always the means by which those who hate Christian people would turn our children away from the faith of their fathers. I lament not the loss of the English language, but the loss of an Anglo nation to whom God gave the English language. I am delighted to see Koreans and Chinese hold fast to their language, and for the right reason to keep separate from me. A storefront in the Korean language tells me that those inside do not care for my business.