The Mind Virus Mutates!

The Heritage Foundation, Oran P. Smith, and Pro-Voucher Rhetoric

Those of us who are parents know that feeling in your gut— every time you drop your child off at school, it’s an act of faith. You trust a group of people – the principal, the teachers, even the janitors, with the most precious thing in your life – your children. And you just want what’s best for them. So as my wife often reminds me, sometimes my heart disengages from my head and I say something I shouldn’t – and that’s what happened yesterday. I clearly said something as a dad that I just shouldn’t have said. And I apologize.

-Former South Carolina Senator/ former Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint, 2010 (in response to calls for an apology for saying that gay people and unmarried pregnant women should not be allowed to teach)

What I actually said was, “Given how understandably agitated he was, I applaud this father for making the right choice to write an email instead of pick up a gun”.

-Charleston County School Board member Ed Kelley, 2023 (on the allegation that he said he wou…